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COPYRIGHT. OCTOBER 3, 1910 

BY 

ELIZABETH TOWNS 


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CONTENTS 


PAGE 

Introduction. 5 

I. The Foundation of Life. 9 

II. The Seven Principles of Creation. 19 

III. Nature’s Devil.25 

IV. Transmutation of Evil.32 

V. The New Thought Platform . 39 

VI. Evolution and the Absolute, and Per¬ 
petual Life. 45 

VII. Cosmic Consciousness. 59 

VIII. How to Become Cosmo-Conscious. 71 

IX. Telepathy: A New View.83 

X. Mental Immigration.104 

XI. Action and Rest.113 

XII. The Practice of Prosperity.123 

XIII. The Principles and Practice of Health 

and Prosperity .129 

XIV. Interaction of Mind and Body.149 

XV. How to Live a Perfect Day.170 

XVI. The Song of Yourself. 179 




















You are a Jewel! 

In exactly the right 
setting for the 
present. 

But the setting 
may be made 
over!— 

By believing and 
working. 

You are the Jewel 
that polishes it¬ 
self and secretes 
its own setting— 
by wanting to, 
trying to, and 
keeping at it. 


—Elizabeth Toume. 


INTRODUCTION. 


N this book I design to 
state in logical and 
practical form the new 
philosophy of life and 
living. To do this I 
must stick closely to a 
clear statement of the philosophy itself, 
without trying to give you too many 
proofs. 

It might take seventy lectures to rea¬ 
son you into accepting the new view of 
life; and still you would be unconvinced. 

Why? Because reason is an endless 
labyrinth out of which no man emerges 
unaided by a higher wisdom than itself. 
Reason is the original Chinese puzzle, 
forever unsolved until you get up above 
reason; up above the labyrinth and look 
down upon it to see where you are going. 

The walls, and walls within walls, of 
reason’s labyrinth are your prejudices. 






INTRODUCTION. 


No man climbs over a prejudice; he 
merely seeks the first opening around it, 
and finds himself in another alley of the 
labyrinth! The only way to know a 
blind alley before you see it, the only 
way to know your own prejudice-wall 
when you see it, is to go up in a balloon 
and look down. 

Once admit that there is a way to get 
above reason, that there is an intelli¬ 
gence above reason, in which reason 
lives and moves and by which it expands 
and grows, and you find yourself al¬ 
ready mounting and looking over the 
walls of those blind alleys of reason that 
lead into more blind alleys. If you keep 
on looking down on reason you will 
eventually raze many of its prejudice- 
walls, that serve no purpose except to 
cut off the view of life as a whole. 

“A narrow mind” is a most express¬ 
ive term; it exactly describes the mind 
whose energy flows between endless 
prejudice-walls that merely shut off its 
view of larger things, while it wanders 


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endlessly in mental alleys that lead to 
more mental alleys, weariness, death. 

These prejudice-alleys—common to 
all mankind—are alleys built through 
reasoning by the light of the five phys¬ 
ical senses only. Not until man finds 
these inadequate and turns away yearn¬ 
ing for a satisfaction never found, does 
he realize that after all there may be 
more to life than he has seen, smelt, felt, 
heard, or tasted. 

Then he looks up from his mental 
alleys and glimpses—PRINCIPLE, in¬ 
stead of things; God above and in 
things, instead of man alone, inade¬ 
quate. 

“He that cometh unto God must be¬ 
lieve that he is, and that he is a 
rewarder of them that diligently seek 
him.” 

Perhaps there may be some who can¬ 
not get away from their prejudices long 
enough to really catch the new view of 
life. Let us take a hint from Shake- 

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INTRODUCTION . 


speare, then, and play pretend. “If all 
the world’s a stage” and we are players, 
let us choose to lay aside our old parts 
while we read these pages, and let us 
take up the new part of the new thought 
philosophy, forgetting the old and put¬ 
ting into the new all the imagination 
and will and interest at our command. 

Let us assume a philosophy if we have 
it not. 

Let us play pretend, like children. 

Only as little children can we enter 
a new heaven and transformed life. 


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CHAPTER I. 

The Foundation of Life. 


LL our Darwins and Hux¬ 
leys and Haeckels have 
come at the last to agree 
that back of all living 
forms, and back of the 
first amoeba itself, there 
is Something that eye and microscope 
and scalpel cannot cope with; a some¬ 
thing that informs everything, animate 
and inanimate, without which that thing 
cannot be formed or held together. 

This Something the scientist proves 
and affirms, but refuses to define. The 
religionist tries to define it, but fails to 
prove its existence or its nature. 

The scientist says, “I cannot see, 
hear, smell, taste, or feel this Something, 
therefore I do not know what it is, and 
nothing is worth counting except what 
can be known.” 







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The religionist says, “I see there is a 
Something that moves at the heart of all 
nature including man; this Something 
must be very mighty, therefore I will 
find out its will and work with it; I 
will beseech It to enlighten me and lead 
me.” 

So the scientist digs through things 
and finds God; while the religionist as¬ 
pires above things and finds God—one 
God, the life of all life, and more. 

What is God, the First Cause, the 
Life, the Prime Mover in all creation? 
“God is Love,” says the Good Book. 
“God is Mind,” “God is Principle,” 
“God is Life,” “God is Spirit,” “God is 
Soul.” 

Alexander Pope says all creation is 
“one stupendous Whole, whose body 
nature is, and God the soul.” And 
again, “From the soule the bodye forme 
doth take.” 

In plain words, God is the primal sub¬ 
stance that fills all space, all time; out 


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of which and by which all things are 
made. 

The nature of God is mind. The 
mode of motion of universal mind is 
thought. God thought or spoke the uni¬ 
verse into being, and God is still think¬ 
ing this universe into greater being; 
thinking in and through you and me, 
and through all the lower forms of life 
as well. 

I think it is logical—and maybe safe! 
—to say that God cannot think except 
through you and me; that all the 
thought he has is your thought and 
mine, the thought of all the forms of 
life that are or have been, in this world 
and in all worlds. 

God by his thought is proving himself, 
and he has not proved as yet more than 
the sum of the thought of all peoples and 
worlds. 

God is thinking out a great inspira¬ 
tion of his, and the universe is his or¬ 
ganized thought. 


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God’s thought forms are all tempo¬ 
rary, ever changing from better to best. 
But God himself is absolute, the same 
yesterday, to-day, and forever. 

But mind is only God’s character. 
Back of that is something else which is 
himself, his being, his essence, his 
ABSOLUTE substance. 

In character, God is Mind; in essence, 
he is Love. Back of thinking lies LOVE, 
SPIRIT, SOUL; and the thinking that 
fails to take this universal love-spirit, 
soul, into every counsel is very narrow, 
shortsighted, and inadequate thinking 
indeed. 

“God is love” goes back to the abso¬ 
lute, eternal, omnipresent TRUTH of 
all being, the prime mover of all doing. 

God is love, and love is twofold, made 
up of equal parts of will and wisdom. 
Will is active or positive; wisdom is 
receptive or negative. Will corre¬ 
sponds to the male principle of all cre¬ 
ation, wisdom to the female. One 
expands and projects; the other con- 


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serves. In every tiny atom and ion 
and corpuscle of life these two principles 
inhere. Without the two of them there 
would never have been a beginning of 
creation. 

In the ultimate there is but one dual 
principle of life, male and female, will 
and wisdom, inherent in every atom and 
in every organism of life, in every 
thought of every mind: “Male and 
female created he them”—not male or 
female. 

Among the forms of life, every mas¬ 
culine is feminine within, and every 
feminine is masculine within. Because 
of this is the everlasting attraction be¬ 
tween the two. 

A perfect balance of this dual prin¬ 
ciple in any organism would result in 
separation from its fellows, the hermit 
life of uselessness to society as a whole. 

This is illustrated in mineral life by a 
slight experiment. Take a bar of mag¬ 
netized iron. One end is negative, the 
other positive. Cut it into pieces. The 


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pieces, each of which has its positive and 
negative poles, will adhere to each other. 
But turn the middle piece around, 
bringing two positives together, and 
you cannot make them stick. 

Magnetize two needles and place them 
with positive poles together, and they 
will instantly fly apart. Turn one 
needle the other end about, and they 
will cling together. Thus attraction 
works, always, between positive and 
negative, male and female, light and 
dark, will and wisdom. 

Will, the male principle of life, is 
electric, positive in its action. It is the 
centrifugal force that throws off energy, 
as the sun throws off rays and worlds. 

Wisdom, the female principle, is mag¬ 
netic, attractive, negative, the centrip¬ 
etal force of nature that draws together 
and binds, as the earth draws the sun’s 
electric rays, as the matrix draws, holds, 
conserves the seed. It is the magnetic 
centripetal force that balances the sun’s 
electric, radiating, projecting power. 


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These two forces are inherent in 
every atom and ion and corpuscle of the 
universe; in every thought of the uni¬ 
verse. 

Now go back to the beginning of 
things and imagine the state of space— 
full of Love, Mind, God; full of un¬ 
formed thought—thought (or corpus¬ 
cles; they are one) diffused like vapor; 
all the corpuscles or thoughts exactly 
alike, held equidistant from each other 
by equal action of the electric and mag¬ 
netic forces inherent in each; all whirl¬ 
ing on their axes and in their orbits, 
just as worlds whirl to-day. 

Then God, Love, the Will-and-Wis- 
dom One, moved upon the face of the 
deep to organize these corpuscles into 
Ideas. God wanted a kaleidoscope for 
his amusement! He grew a bit tired 
of the sameness of his thought, as it 
were; and a wave of relaxation, of cool¬ 
ing, went over the face of the deep, 
which disturbed the equilibrium of elec- 


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trie and magnetic corpuscles. They 
began to draw together in little nuclei, 
in little nebulous patches, closer and 
closer in spots, separating from other 
congregations of corpuscles, just as de¬ 
scribed in the nebular hypothesis of 
creation. 

When the first two corpuscles (or 
thoughts) approached in space, creation 
or living organization began. Here we 
get our first view of the wonderful 
Seven Principles of Creation, without 
which nothing was made that was 
made; the seven principles inherent in 
every little electric-magnetic, male-and- 
female corpuscle in all time and space; 
inherent in every living thing that has 
yet appeared, including man and the 
spirits or mahatmas, if there are such; 
the seven principles by which God cre¬ 
ates, the same seven principles by which 
you and I create and re-create. God 
thought this universe into being all by 
himself, until he had completed up to 
and including man. He thought man 


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out in his own image and likeness, so 
that man might think with him, work 
with him, in all creating to come. Man 
is God’s Idea; and God’s Ideas are work¬ 
ing together in and with him—by those 
same old seven principles—to create 
greater glories than either God or man 
has yet dreamed over; greater than 
God or man could possibly accomplish 
alone. 

You are God’s thought-child, and 
your ideas are God’s grandchildren, as 
it were! 

This is your genealogy!—don’t get 
yourself mixed up in earth heredity. As 
Ella Wheeler Wilcox sings:— 

“Back of thy parents and thy grand¬ 
parents lies the great eternal Will; 

That, too, is thine inheritance; strong, 
beautiful, divine; sure lever of suc¬ 
cess for him who tries.” 

And father, sons, and grandsons are 
all working together on one Big Job— 
the job of making a new heaven and a 


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LESSONS IN 


new earth, a bigger, brighter, better 
heaven and earth for the joy of all; a 
heaven and earth that shall prove the 
dream God dreamed before he ever be¬ 
gan to think at all . 


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LIVING. 


CHAPTER II. 

The Seven Principles of Creation. 

OW back to our seven 
principles by which God 
thinks out a creation; 
by which you and I 
are governed; by which 
OUR THOUGHTS are 
governed in their action on further 
creation of ourselves and our environ¬ 
ments. 

First, remember that the dual prin¬ 
ciple of all life, the essence of God and 
you, Will and Wisdom (male and 
female, electric and magnetic), is indi¬ 
visible, inseparable, omnipresent, om¬ 
nipotent, omniscient. It is one as the 
two tight-twisted strands of a rope are 
one—one strand uppermost and active 
at this point, the other at the next, but 
both of them fully present and indivis¬ 
ible. 



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The seven principles are the inherent 
laws by which will and wisdom work 
out creation. These, too, may be lik¬ 
ened to a rope, a seven-strand, seven- 
colored, tight-twisted one, where each 
strand comes uppermost in turn, each 
in its turn dominating and giving color 
to the whole. 

These seven principles work alike in 
every tiniest corpuscle, ion, and atom of 
the universe; they govern the forming 
and the whirling of worlds; they mani¬ 
fest in their entirety in the lowest forms 
of vegetable life, as well as in the high¬ 
est forms of the animal and the human. 

The same seven principles govern in 
the founding, perpetuation, and disin¬ 
tegration of the family, the society, 
secret or otherwise, the school, town, 
state, government, the world itself. 
Wherever there is atom, thought, or 
organization, be it microscopic or tele¬ 
scopic, mineral, plant, animal, human, 
superhuman, there the seven principles 
are active. Let one of these principles 


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get lazy on its job, and all creation and 
imagination itself would stand still with 
the shock. 

The seven principles by which God 
creates are as everywhere present as 
God himself. Not even “the idle word’’ 
is so small that the whole seven princi¬ 
ples are not fully active within it. Do 
you get that? 

And do you get the truth that God is 
in his world as well as in his heaven; 
that all “matter” is thought; and that in 
every thought atom and organization of 
atoms inhere the seven creative princi¬ 
ples of life by which God-in-us organizes 
and grows things? 

1. First among the seven principles 
is Force; power, with its color a strong, 
crude red. The reds of nature show 
where all the principles inhere with the 
first one, force, uppermost. The family 
or person dominated by this principle 
is rough, rude, forceful above wisdom, 
and you will often find him housed in 
red buildings, wearing red clothing, fre- 


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quently tearing around in red rages; 
believing in hell fire and the rod and 
doing his part toward feeding the one 
and exercising the other. 

These same people are not at all de¬ 
void of love or sense or wisdom; they are 
merely dominated for the time by the 
first of the seven principles, just as 
sharp-cornered, solid red rocks are dom¬ 
inated by forces. 

Force, the first principle, draws 
things together and holds them there. 
If force were the only principle, crea¬ 
tion might be a ragged red rock; or 
perhaps a red rock sphere. 

2. But here comes in Discrimina¬ 
tion, the second principle, with its color 
of delicate pink. It shows up somewhat 
in our red family, but its positive quali¬ 
ties are underneath, as Ideals and long¬ 
ings that the family wants to realize 
but can’t quite. The family or person 
in whom discrimination is uppermost is 
very dainty; affects delicate colors, high 
art, and a die-away voice; abhors crude 


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art; despises business, brawn, and 
force; and is critical and fault-finding 
generally. Such a person may possess 
all sorts of virtues, but his life is colored 
and dominated by the second principle, 
discrimination. 

First, life draws atoms and people 
together; second, it discriminates, hold¬ 
ing this atom or person, rejecting that. 

3. Next Life arranges the atoms or 
persons it has drawn together. Here 
comes the third principle, Order, its 
color pale blue. Who has not seen the 
family where order dominates, where 
everything is done exactly the same 
every day, comfort sacrificed to system, 
with the very atmosphere blue? The 
person whose positive choice of color is 
pale blue is almost sure to be one in 
whom the principle of order is domi¬ 
nant. 

In the lower forms of life order is 
rarely the dominant principle, so even 
blue flowers are scarce. We look up to 
find the blues, in the skies, on the dis- 


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tant hills, in man’s eyes—“the windows 
of his soul.” In man’s works we find 
order and its blue coming oftener to the 
surface. 

The color blue is attributed to wis¬ 
dom, and Butler seems to identify wis¬ 
dom and order. This seems to me like 
saying God and order are one, but God 
and force, or God and cohesion, are less 
one; for wisdom and will (or God) in¬ 
clude all the seven principles equally; 
or so it seems to me. Order is only one 
of wisdom’s principles of action. The 
rainbow is the color of wisdom! Let 
us leave blue to the principle of order. 

For some of the ideas expressed in chapters II, III and IV, I am 
indebted to Butler’s “Seven Creative Principles.” 


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CHAPTER III. 

Nature’s Devil. 

ITH our last chapter we 
left creation in good 
order, with the third 
principle of nature, or¬ 
der, in possession, and 
everything showing a 
clear blue. If life itself had taken a 
vacation with us, we should have seen 
twenty-four hours of such blues as no 
one has dreamed. No change anywhere, 
just a world vibrating to the tone of 
order, sky blue; a universe of blue, bas- 
relief against a blue sky! 

Happily all the seven principles kept 
on working while we played. 

To re-state:— 

First, there is Force, the first princi¬ 
ple, the principle of attraction, that 
draws things, atoms, worlds, and people 
together. 



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Helen Wilmans called God the Law 
of Attraction, but you will readily see 
that this is a misnomer, as the law of 
attraction is only one of the seven prin¬ 
ciples by which God creates. God by 
any name would be the same, and Helen 
Wilmans’ name for him does not spoil 
the splendid thinking-out which she did 
for this day and age. But her state¬ 
ment should not hold us from thinking 
still farther. 

By the way, the color of force is red. 
Helen Wilmans was impressed with the 
force or attraction side of life, and I am 
told that in hair and complexion she 
showed the sandy reds that belong to 
that principle; just an interesting il¬ 
lustration of the way these principles of 
life crop out in what is commonly called 
“coincidence.” 

Second comes in the principle of Dis¬ 
crimination, which decides what shall be 
attracted and what let alone. 

Third comes Order, deciding where 
each thing shall be placed. 



LIVING. 


Then comes the work of the fourth 
principle:— 

4. After drawing atoms or people 
together, discriminating as to quality, 
arranging in order, Life next binds 
them in one organization. Thus comes 
in the fourth principle of life, Cohesion, 
the color of green that we see in the 
spring. To the person dominated by 
cohesion, green is a favorite color and 
any change is a horror. To keep things 
as they are seems to him the chief end 
of life. The attic is full of old stuff he 
can’t let go of. His coffers are full of 
cash and his head of old fogy ideas. He 
is clannish; his daughters and sons are 
run into the same mold with father and 
mother. Green-eyed jealousy stands 
guard against innovation. 

Cohesion means family ties as dis¬ 
tinct from family progress. Unhappy 
the son and daughter of the house of 
ties! 

5. Unless they are alive enough to 
kick, to will for themselves, to raise a 


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ferment in the family and release them¬ 
selves to follow their ideals. 

Ideals are the yeast that makes active 
the fifth principle of life, Fermentation. 

This principle is the real devil of all 
history, all mythology, of Christianity 
itself. It is the destroying principle of 
life that comes in to tear down that 
which has served its purpose and must 
give way to better things. 

The college boy goes back to the tie- 
bound home and raises the devil of a 
ferment that causes much pain, but 
eventually releases them all to more 
life, further growth. 

Fermentation is the death principle 
that acts on all forms of life not fit to be 
perpetuated. It is dominant in the ac¬ 
tinic or destroying rays of the sun that 
cause decomposition. Its color is deep 
indigo blue, or black—the color of 
mourning, pain, loss (of the old), death. 

The family in which this principle is 
dominant is the family of mourning, 
darkened rooms, black clothing, secret 


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sorrows, losses and crosses, troubles, 
tribulations, and death. 

Not because this principle is really 
any more painful in its action than any 
other of the seven, but because man 
fights it harder. We find ourselves liv¬ 
ing on the surface of life, judging from 
appearances, and resisting change. The 
resistance is due to the activity of the 
first principle, force. Force holds to¬ 
gether, fermentation separates. 

But there is no real reason why the 
action of either principle should give us 
pain. 

There is no reason or cause for the 
pain accompanying change and death, 
except in the individual mind. 

It is “all in your mind”; not at all in 
any inherent quality or principle of 
nature or life itself, but in unnatural 
resistance of the individual mind, gov¬ 
erned by false concepts of life. 

Do you doubt this? Then tell me 
why one man courts death while another 
abhors it. Why does one woman feel 


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only peaceful relief at the death of a 
very aged and infirm relative, while 
another in similar condition grieves 
herself sick over it ? Why is one person 
frightened at the thing another enjoys? 
Why does one man joy in travel while 
his neighbor hates it? Why does one 
hate the taste of cod liver oil while his 
brother likes it? Why do you “turn 
against” things you once liked? 

The mental attitude governs in every 
case; and your mental attitude is deter¬ 
mined by your concepts of things in 
particular and of life in general. 

If you really believed what Spiritu¬ 
alists claim to believe about the death 
of a child, could you be anything but 
happy that a child had died and escaped 
the miseries and uncertainties of life on 
earth? 

Your feelings of resistance to any¬ 
thing are roused by your belief in evil. 
I am showing you that there is no evil; 
that life is an orderly creation progress¬ 
ing by interaction of seven beneficent 


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principles. If you can catch this con¬ 
cept—if you are ready for it—you will 
pass out forever from the old realm of 
sin, sickness, death, pain. 


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CHAPTER IV. 

Transmutation of Evil. 

ERE comes in the sixth 
principle of life, Trans¬ 
mutation. Fermentation 
is full of purpose. It 
disintegrates the useless 
and makes it ready for 
transmutation to higher forms. Out 
of the fermenting swamp rises the lily. 
Out of hard experience and suffering 
comes wisdom. Out of disappointed 
personal love comes universal love and 
world-helping. 

Whitman’s heart fermented, disin¬ 
tegrated, nearly broke over an unre¬ 
quited love; by and by he saw that love 
is for the lover and the world; and out 
of it all came forth his immortal poems. 
Every great man and woman has paral¬ 
leled Whitman’s experience. 

The lesser love ferments and out of 



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it rises the greater love for all mankind. 

The family itself disintegrates that 
the race may gain. 

This is what Jesus meant when he 
said one must forsake family loves, 
houses, and lands for the kingdom’s 
sake. To hold family loves against the 
race, to devote all one’s self to personal 
loves, is to invite disintegration. To 
cherish the family love as a part of the 
race love is to keep it. One does not 
know how to love a person well and hap¬ 
pily unless he first loves all persons. 

Fermentation comes into one’s life to 
lighter it and make room for greater 
things, for greater joys and loves, for 
fuller usefulness and wisdom. Fer¬ 
mentation is John the Baptist to Trans¬ 
mutation, which is Christ before the 
resurrection. 

Nothing goes out of a life hut to make 
room for something better. 

To let things go, instead of resisting 
and grieving over the change, is to work 
with the underlying wisdom and will of 


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life. “Resignation to God’s will” is the 
key to peaceful and normal growth. 
Kicking against change only makes 
gnarls and scars, and side-tracks energy 
from one’s life business of growing. 

Transmutation, the sixth principle of 
life, brings reorganization and glory. 
Its color is the clear purple of the pas¬ 
sion flower. It is full of passion, fire, 
activity. The person in whom trans¬ 
mutation happens to be dominant is 
moved to think outside the ordinary 
channels. He comes out and is separate 
in thought, at least, from the fashions 
of his mental and physical environment. 
He forsakes old habits of thought and 
sets his face toward a larger view of 
life. The new thought movement is a 
transmutation movement, its people 
dominated for the time by the transmu¬ 
tation principle. 

7. But there is still another princi¬ 
ple of life, the principle of Sensation, 
blessing, its color the clear yellow of the 
sun. 


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“While in itself sensation is a distinct 
principle, yet, without its alliance to 
matter, to organism, there is no sensa¬ 
tion. Sensation is a mode of conscious¬ 
ness.” 

Sensation is that which results from 
the impingement of etheric waves upon 
an organism built up by interaction of 
the first six principles of life. 

Sensation takes possession of the or¬ 
ganism, so to speak, and uses it for its 
own. 

Just what sensation is like no scientist 
has dared to say. It is one of those 
eternal substances that we cannot see, 
hear, smell, taste, or feel; but without it 
there could be no seeing, tasting, smell¬ 
ing, hearing, or feeling. 

As nearly as I can sense sense-ation, it 
is God; God reaching out through all 
senses and getting acquainted with his 
ideas, and steering his ideas (you and 
me, you know) into safe paths, paths of 
usefulness, peace, and blessing. 

Every organized being moves in a sea 


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of vibrations, and by reaching out to¬ 
ward them, by aspiring toward them, he 
works with the vibrations to build the 
organs through which those vibrations 
are registered. Ears and eyes, noses 
and feelers, are all marconigraphs. 

Every atom , cell, and corpuscle in 
your body is a Marconi station for 
catching spiritual or etheric vibrations 
on its own account , and for the good of 
you as a whole. 

And the more highly organized your 
body is the greater the range of vibra¬ 
tions it can register for the use of this 
spiritual substance-life called sense. 

The expression “five senses” is not 
scientific from any point of view. Look¬ 
ing at it from the material end, we have 
as many senses as we have cells and 
corpuscles in our bodies. Viewing it 
from the spiritual side, the really sub¬ 
stantial side of life, we have only one 
sense, which is God himself, the sense 
or soul of all creation; and this one sense 
builds uncounted millions of Marconi 


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stations by which it gains intelligence, 
sensations, from all space. 

And still life is building better, more 
sensitive marconigraphs. There are 
those in whom a sixth sense is well de¬ 
veloped, and a seventh hinted at. And 
the scientist points to great gaps of vi¬ 
brations not yet touched by man, not to 
mention the ultra-violet vibrations not 
yet imagined. Man is destined to ex¬ 
plore them all. 

The sixth sense of clairvoyance and 
clair-audience corresponds with the 
sixth principle of transmutation. The 
seventh sense, intuition, clear-knowing, 
corresponds to the seventh principle of 
sensation or blessing, and it results in 
the so-called cosmic consciousness. 

All these principles and senses are 
inherent in every human being, and in 
every atom and corpuscle of creation. 
In due time every individual will come 
under dominance of each and every 
principle; but always the entire seven 


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are working subconsciously in you, if 
not consciously. And always the entire 
seven are present and active, consciously 
or unconsciously, in every life cell of 
creation. 

Nothing has been left out of any¬ 
body’s make-up; everything is in its 
place, awaiting its turn in your con¬ 
sciousness. 


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CHAPTER V. 

The New Thought Platform. 

HIS brings us to the state¬ 
ment of our Twelve 
Planks of the New 
Thought Platform, as 
a basis for future in¬ 
struction in the develop¬ 
ment of the individual —for the joy of 
all. 

Here is our platform, broad enough, 
strong enough for not only the “hun¬ 
dred and forty and four thousand ” 
elect, but for all mankind, and woman¬ 
kind, and even for all the ITS of crea¬ 
tion :— 

1. God is all-present Mind, whose 
mode of motion is thought. 

2. Man is God’s Idea; men are 
trains of thought in God’s mind; “man 
is a statement of beliefs.” 

3. Thought on its active side is Will 



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or Desire; on its negative side it is Wis¬ 
dom. 

4. Desire and Wisdom inhere in God 
and in all his thoughts and in man and 
in man’s thoughts. Desire and Wis¬ 
dom hold planets in their orbits and 
project comets on their course. 

They likewise hold man in his place 
and urge him to work out the God-idea 
within him by building more and more 
stately mansions in mind, and in mate¬ 
rials. Desire and Wisdom control man’s 
thoughts, too. Not even one “idle 
word,” or idle thought, is too slight to be 
swayed by the desire within it, and by 
desires outside of it which are akin. 

5. Desire is the primal force of At¬ 
traction inherent in every atom and in 
every organization of atoms through all 
creation. 

6. Wisdom is the Pattern, the Idea, 
inherent in God, and every atom, and in 
every organization of atoms in all crea¬ 
tion. 

7. Desire and Wisdom constitute 


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also the free ethers (or God) in which 
all creation moves and has its being, and 
by in-spiring which it lives and grows, 

8. Life is a Great School in which 
we learn wisdom by doing things. 

9. All ways of doing things—or peo¬ 
ple—are open to us, wise and unwise. 
We may use either or both ways. We 
find by experience that the “way of the 
transgressor is hard,” while “wisdom’s 
ways are ways of pleasantness and all 
her paths are peace.” 

By experience we prove wisdom’s 
ways are what we desire —are not wis¬ 
dom and desire One from eternity to 
eternity? 

Transgressor of what? Of the law of 
all being, the Law of Oneness, Wisdom, 
and Desire. (How would you act to¬ 
ward another if you could see your One¬ 
ness with him and realize your wisdom 
and love?) 

10. Man’s desire is inseparable from 
his wisdom—he desires what he thinks 
is for his good. 


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He is also one with the universal sea 
of wisdom and desire which lies just 
above his consciousness. This universal 
wisdom desires for and through him, 
and often overrules for his good the good 
he thought he desired. At the time it 
seems hard that he cannot have the 
thing he desired; later he sees that it 
was because he was not, in his conscious¬ 
ness, wise enough to desire the right 
thing in the right place. 

This One Universal Consciousness is 
ever urging every man to right action, 
before the man has wisdom enough to 
recognize what the right action should 
be. 

This spirit of wisdom lightens every 
man that comes into the world, and con¬ 
tinues to press for expression through 
him, every moment as long as he lives. 
The more complete a man’s dependence 
upon this universal spirit that speaks 
within, the surer he is to choose always 
the path of wisdom, peace, and pleasant¬ 
ness. 


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The world is growing in knowledge— 
the only way a mental world can grow. 

Man’s mistakes come through depend¬ 
ence upon his present fund of wisdom 
and knowledge, considering himself 
apart from other humans, and separate 
from God, the Universal Spirit of all 
wisdom. 

11. The things that are unseen are 
the true forces and substances of life— 
Wisdom, Love or Desire, Ideals. 

The things that are seen are ever 
changing for something better. 

Therefore, we look within for our 
peace and happiness and we value a 
clear conscience above rubies. We 
value above loves, lands, and honors that 
inner quiet, the well-done of the Uni¬ 
versal Spirit witnessing with ours, that 
all is well no matter what passes. 

12. But it is not all resignation. 
Next comes creation. Being mental 
creatures we think new things into be¬ 
ing. 

Do we desire a thing? Then it is 


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ours by right, provided we can have it 
without robbing another. 

The next thing is to desire it steadily 
and think it into being. 

Health, Wealth, Wisdom, Love, Suc¬ 
cess, all may be ours; not only without 
robbing another; they may enrich others 
through being ours. But we must 
think them into being without thinking 
anything away from others. The means 
by which we go to work to earn money 
must be blest by those who buy as well 
as those who sell. 

We desire for others all we desire for 
ourselves, plus all they may desire for 
themselves. 

The chief end of man is to glorify 
good and enjoy working it out forever. 


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CHAPTER VI. 

Evolution and the Absolute, and 
Perpetual Life. 

EARLY all new thought 
people believe in evolu¬ 
tion, along with all 
orthodox scientists of 
the day. But here and 
there you will find a 
teacher of some cult that declares posi¬ 
tively there is no such thing as evolu¬ 
tion ; that it is a myth, a mirage, maya, 
illusion; that there is only the Absolute 
and everything else is poppycock and 
tommy-rot, or words to that effect. 

We receive hundreds of letters from 
beginners bewildered by these con¬ 
flicting teachings. “Which is right?” 
they beg to know. 

They are both right in a sense; and 
they are both wrong in a sense. 

“The things which are not seen are 



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eternal; the things which are seen are 
temporal,”— temporary, forever chang¬ 
ing,—said Paul. But the absolutist 
new thoughter jumps a long way and 
arrives at the conclusion that the things 
which are not seen are eternal, absolute, 
while the things that are seen are 
useless, chaotic nothings to be ignored, 
despised, denied, and lived above. 
The Christian Science branch of new 
thought attributes all matter to “carnal 
mind,” and carnal mind it identifies as 
the devil. Material things are not un¬ 
der the law of God, they assert, neither 
can be, therefore matter and all mate¬ 
rial things are evil, the devil, and we 
must despise them and live outside 
of them. They, too, are right, in a 
sense. 

God is the Absolute, unchanging, 
eternal in the heavens; the same yester¬ 
day, to-day, and forever; the omnis¬ 
cient, omnipotent, omnipresent One; the 
only actor in all action; the only thinker 
behind all thought; the one life and en- 


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ergy that fills all space and time; the 
One found alike in heaven and in hell; 
God the First Cause, the One Creator; 
God the Absolute and intangible I AM 
IT who inhabits space eternally. 

Here is your absolute, of whom the 
absolutist prates. 

God is absolute, changeless. 

But his THOUGHTS are ever chang¬ 
ing within him; his thought-built uni¬ 
verse evolutes from the beginning. 

And beginning itself is eternal. 
Every blade of grass that grows, every 
tree, every insect, bird, animal, is an 
orderly evolution of thought within the 
Absolute; and every child that comes 
into the world repeats each step of evo¬ 
lution from “the beginning” described 
in Genesis, up to the present time. In 
the womb he passes subconsciously 
through every phase of evolution from 
the first forming of a sphere out of 
the fiery mist, up through every vege¬ 
table and animal plane to the plane of 
completed man; and he comes forth 


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“an acme of things accomplished” by 
God’s thought plus man’s up to the 
present time, and “an encloser of things 
to be” accomplished by God and man in 
all millenniums to come. 

There is this active thought side of 
God, and creation is IT—including you 
and me. God thinks; and he does not 
think the absolute and unchangeable 
any more than you do, or the absolutist 
teacher does. 

God the absolute is not content with 
Nirvana, the state of changeless bliss¬ 
feeling. If he had been, you and I and 
creation had never been. 

God feels Nirvana at the center of 
him, as you and I may feel it (of which 
more anon), but he is not content with 
that; he wants to think out bliss to the 
very circumference of him; he wants to 
prove himself in ideas, to think out 
thought-creatures who will “enjoy him 
forever,” enjoy with him forever. 

So God BEGAN to think. His spirit 
moved on the face of the Nirvana deep 


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and his nebulous feeling began to pre¬ 
cipitate in thought forms of whirling 
corpuscles and worlds; the “morning 
stars sang together” with him. This 
was the beginning of things , the begin¬ 
ning of evolution, the beginning of 
God’s thinking that resulted at last in 
man, who could think with him as well 
as within him and by his power. 

“The father worketh hitherto (to the 
point of evolving me),” said Jesus, “and 
now / work.” “I in the Father, and 
he in me, and we in YOU,” Jesus ex¬ 
plained. 

The evolution of man is the involu¬ 
tion of God; evolution is the concentra¬ 
tion of God’s life, nature, character, into 
countless millions of images and like¬ 
nesses of himself. 

Men are the facets of God; each 
focuses all the colors of his spectrum. 

To this end God thought and thinks: 
that man find himself “an infinite little 
copy of God,” ready to carry thinking 
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So God “gave man dominion” over all 
things he had thought out up to and 
including man himself. And with God¬ 
conscious man came the end of new 
orders of creation—after that comes 
nature plus “art”—plus man’s thought 
and man’s work. 

Don’t you see that God was lonesome, 
and set to work to think out (thought 
being his only mode of activity) a lot of 
self-thinking, self-willing people to en¬ 
joy living and thinking and loving with 
him? 

I doubt God’s knowing in the begin¬ 
ning just how to do this. He had to 
experiment. All along the way of evo¬ 
lution lie the bones of creatures God 
thought out and then abandoned for 
higher forms. These fossil creatures 
are still preserved to us, that we may 
see the mistakes God made before he 
succeeded in thinking out a satisfactory 
pattern of a man. 

But at last he got him made, pro¬ 
nounced him good, turned over the re- 


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mainder of the job to him, and rested 
from his lonely and hitherto unappreci¬ 
ated labors. 

And then man took up the work of 
evolution. As the Father had life and 
will, love, wisdom in himself, so had he 
given to the son to have life, will, wis¬ 
dom, love, thinking power in himself. 

Then God drove him out of the gar¬ 
den of Eden to work out the dominion 
given him; dominion over every beast 
of the field and every beast of his own 
breast; dominion over earth, fire, water, 
and air within and without. 

And man has evoluted things apace. 
It is a far cry from the first fig-leaf 
apron to the dressmaker convention 
held in New York every spring, and to 
the ready-to-wear clothing a man buys 
on sight; from flint-and-tinder fires to 
lucifer matches and Gurney heaters; 
from cave dwellings to twentieth cen¬ 
tury mansions and hotels; from wooden 
sticks to Oliver plows; from pine knots 
to electric lighting; from the spring at 


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the roadside to the springs piped into 
your kitchen; from the pony express to 
the twentieth century limited, the tele¬ 
graph, telephone, and wireless; from 
the log and paddle of Ab to the Maure¬ 
tania and the Wright brothers; from 
the stone ax and spearhead to United 
Steel and our navy’s tour of the world; 
from the jungle of Eden to a New York 
of skyscrapers; from hieroglyphs on 
stone to the Congressional library and 
Carnegie; from Adam to Christ, and to 
Roosevelt, Paderewski, Rockefeller. 

It takes man to help God put on the 
finishing touches. That’s what God 
made man for—to help him think still 
farther and better, and to enjoy doing 
it forever; to make a paradise out of 
this earth and then conquer the stars. 

If you are critical you can find lots of 
mistakes man has made in trying to 
improve the earth; but he is abandon¬ 
ing his mistakes as fast as he can, just 
as God abandoned reptilian monstrosi¬ 
ties as soon as he thought beyond them. 


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And every day we are evolving better 
ideas and putting them to use. Every 
day we are getting better command of 
ourselves, our wills; every day we are 
doing better work; every day we are 
coming nearer together, working more 
for the good of all than for the good of 
self. 

Surely we are “growing in wisdom 
and in knowledge”—the only way there 
is for mental creatures to grow. 

Man and God are now working to¬ 
gether to create “whatsoever things 
they desire.” Between them they are 
daily discovering new and greater 
things to desire, and daily they are 
working together to think out and work 
out those things into being. 

God being omnipotence, omniscience, 
omnipresence, and God being the backer 
of man, do you think there is any de¬ 
sirable thing that they cannot bring into 
being? Don’t you see that with such 
a backing any man’s desire is but the 
prophecy of its own fulfillment? 

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What if desire is exactly identical 
with Newton’s force of gravitation? 
What if desire draws the thing desired? 
Haven’t you noticed in your own life a 
hundred, a thousand little cases wherein 
a desired thing came to you in the nick 
of time? I have. 

Ponder this: When the desired thing 
does not come to you or to me, and come 
readily, it is because something in you 
inhibits the action of desire, just as you 
inhibit the action of gravitation this 
minute by holding this book from being 
drawn to the ground. 

Desire and gravitation are identical, 
the very same force. The earth desires 
and attracts this book; you desire and 
hold the book away from the earth. 
How can you do this, when earth is so 
much larger? You do it by concentra¬ 
tion of desire, not by bulk of desiring 
atoms. You are an involution of all 
creation, with power over all creation. 
You overcome all forces below you and 
by this exercise you develop energy 
for still greater overcomings. 

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Whatsoever thing you desire will 
come to you just as soon as you can find 
and remove the inhibiting desire. 

For desire, gravitation, attraction is 
inhibited by greater desire, gravitation, 
attraction. 

Sometimes another’s desire is set 
upon a thing you desire and his attrac¬ 
tion inhibits yours. 

But in ninety-nine out of one hundred 
times it is some counter desire within 
you that keeps you from receiving what 
you desire; or it is the insulating of your 
desire-power by fear. 

In any event it is merely a matter of 
time, patience, and desire-persistence, 
when you will be able to get around or 
over that inhibiting desire. 

There is absolutely no true ideal in 
the imagination of any man but it will 
be desire-drawn into expression sooner 
or later. The millennium that has been 
desired in all ages is surely being drawn 
into being. 

And here comes in the overcoming of 


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death—the last enemy that shall be 
ousted by man. The prophets will 
surely be justified; death will give place 
to life incorruptible, right here on this 
earth. Even the material scientists are 
seeing it now; are seeing what the re¬ 
ligionist has always known by intui¬ 
tion. 

About death and its overcoming we 
hear conflicting teaching, too, as about 
evolution and the absolute. “There is 
no death,” says one; “we are eternal 
now.” “Death is the last enemy that 
shall be overcome,” says his opponent. 

Both are right. In the absolute is no 
death, no beginning, and no end. On 
the unseen side—at the center of the 
star—we are all one life, deathless, im¬ 
mortal. Men have felt this always. 

But on the seen side of life, the 
thought-built side, we certainly do die, 
as well as live. Death is doubtless a 
door into a new room of life, but never¬ 
theless it is death. And it is this very 
death of the thought-built body as a 


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whole that the prophets declared should 
be overcome as the last enemy. 

Somatic death is necessary to expe¬ 
dite the evolution of man. Man is a 
growing child, and it is easier to slough 
off an outgrown body and begin over 
than to spend time and energy making 
over the body to fit the growing-up in¬ 
dividual. 

But it is only a matter of getting rid 
of mistakes. When we learn to slough 
off our mistakes daily, hourly, as a little 
child does, we shall keep soft, elastic, 
clean bodies that can do their dying 
daily, instead of all in a bunch. 

The outgrowing of death in the body 
is a matter of desire. Nobody likes 
death—everybody would be glad to abol¬ 
ish it. Man’s desire would have found 
the way long ago except for one thing: 
Each individual has lived so strenuously 
trying to subdue his environment and 
earn a living that he has TIRED of 
living and literally lost his desire-grip 
on life. 


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Not until man gets earth conditions 
made over into pretty much of a para¬ 
dise can he faithfully desire to stay here 
without change. Death of the body is 
so wrapped up with economic conditions 
that the two will have to be overcome 
together. 

To so live as not to become tired of 
living is the key to overcoming death of 
the body. 

And how could one enjoy living eter¬ 
nally with the spur of poverty nipping 
him, or the sight of poverty-nipped 
neighbors forever before him? First 
must Edward Bellamy’s dream come 
true; and thousands still will die in 
working it out. 

After that everlasting life in the flesh 
will come easy. 

And along with it will come levita¬ 
tion, rapid transit to and from other 
worlds. 


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CHAPTER VII. 

Cosmic Consciousness. 

MAN is mind, one with 
the Great Mind. And 
in this mind is his 
thought-built body. In¬ 
stead of your being a 
mind or soul in a body, 
you are mind with a thought-built body 
inside of it! You are not a mind, but 
MIND, universal mind, God mind. 

At the center of you, which is also 
the circumference, you are God. “One 
with the Father,” as Jesus said. 

The seers of all the ages have known 
this. Listen to these “Last Lines,” by 
Emily Bronte:— 

“No coward soul is mine, 

No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled, sphere: 

I see Heaven’s glories shine, 

And faith shines equal, arming me from fear. 



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“0 God within my breast, 

Almighty, ever-present Deity! 

Life—that in me has rest, 

As I—undying Life—have power in thee! 

“Vain are the thousand creeds 

That move men’s hearts: unutterably vain; 
Worthless as withered weeds, 

Or idlest froth amid the boundless main, 

“To waken doubt in one 

Holding so fast by thine infinity; 

So surely anchored on 

The steadfast rock of immortality. 

“With wide-embracing love 

Thy spirit animates eternal years, 

Pervades and broods above, 

Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears. 

“Though earth and man were gone, 

And suns and universes ceased to be, 

And Thou wert left alone, 

Every existence would exist in Thee. 

“There is not room for Death, 

Nor atom that his might could render void; 
Thou—THOU art Being and Breath, 

And what THOU art may never be destroyed. ” 


And there is that beautiful little 
poem, “Illusion,” by our own American 
poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox:— 


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God and I in space alone, 

And nobody else in view. 

And “Where are the people, 0 Lord,” I said, 

“The earth below and the sky o’erhead, 

And the dead whom once I knew?” 

“That was a dream,” God smiled and said; 

“A dream that seemed to be true; 

There were no people living or dead, 

There was no earth and no sky o’erhead— 

There was only Myself and you.” 

“Why do I feel no fear,” I asked, 

“Meeting YOU here this way? 

For I have sinned, I know full well; 

And is there heaven, and is there hell, 

And is this the Judgment Day?” 

“Nay! those were but dreams,” the great God said, 
“Dreams that have ceased to be; 

There is no such thing as fear, or sin; 

There is no you—you never have been— 

There is nothing at all.but Me!” 

Kate Boehme illustrates this as well 
as it can be illustrated to a three-dimen¬ 
sion intellect with a star. 

The points of the star represent the 
individual’s consciousness, the visible 
person. Trace these points back toward 
the center and you find all are one. 


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Imagine the universe as a great star, 
each individual as a point of the star. 
The more completely one lives in the 
consciousness of his material self the 
farther he gets away from consciousness 
of the center where all are one. 

But it is quite possible to extend one’s 
consciousness until it takes in the spirit¬ 
ual center as well as the material cir¬ 
cumference of life. 

It is possible to go still farther and 
come into sym-pathy, into consciousness 
with other points of the great star. 

I have dwelt much upon the oneness 
of all beings because it is the very most 
important plank in the whole new 
thought platform, and without it there 
is no basis for correct reasoning, or for 
right understanding and judgment. 

To reason and judge by that which we 
see at the point of the star is to mis¬ 
judge life and people and go ever astray 
in our reckonings. The points of the 
star head every which way, and on the 
very tip of each sits Gradgrind, with 



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insanity and death straight before 
him! 

On the other hand, to get clear away 
from the point of the star, to live too 
much in the consciousness of unmaterial 
life, is to invite disintegration and death 
of the individual. 

I have sometimes wondered if Emer¬ 
son’s softening of the brain was not due 
in a measure, at least, to this very 
thing; if he did not dwell so much with 
the absolute, with the oversoul, valuing 
so little the forms and facts of material 
life, that the channels which thought 
must run in grew shallow and soft. And 
it is a fact that nearly every devoted 
spiritualist one meets is anything but 
positively healthy and wealthy on the 
material plane. 

“Judge not according to outward ap¬ 
pearances,” said Jesus, “but judge right 
judgment.” Right judgment comes 
from getting a fair view of all the 
premises. Right judgment begins at the 
center, the point of oneness of motive, 


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and reasons outward; while unright 
judgment begins at the point of the star 
and stays there. 

The only safe way is to stand on the 
solid earth, value the world of created 
things as proof of the center of life and 
power, look to the center for power and 
wisdom, but be not content until you 
have used the power and wisdom to 
change material things. 

A man is a point of the universal star, 
and his center is the center of every 
other star point. 

To judge another by yourself is sci¬ 
entific; but first be sure you know your¬ 
self—from circumference to center and 
back again. 

NOW: God is the Universal Pres¬ 
ence of Will and Wisdom, who dreamed 
a universe and then proceeded to think 
it out. 

Robert Fulton was a point of this 
Universal Presence of will and wisdom, 
made in its image and of its very sub- 


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stance, breathing momently its essence, 
its dream , its will and wisdom. 

Robert Fulton dreamed a steamboat, 
and then proceeded to think it out. 
Others, too, caught the dream—caught 
more of it than Fulton could—and then 
proceeded to think it out. The Maure¬ 
tania is the result, the expression of 
that dream up to date; and still the 
dream is growing; still the “pattern” is 
coming down from the heavens, from 
the One Presence, to be caught by man 
and thought out into form. 

And many were the mistakes made 
in thinking out the steamboat dream up 
to date, and every mistake was a 
teacher. As fast as man learned from 
a mistake he corrected it and passed 
on. 

So even the mistakes were good, when 
considered in regard to the man, the 
dream, and its working out. For man, 
being all mental, grows only by learn¬ 
ing; and mistakes teach him, as well as 
successes. Therefore are mistakes 


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good. You realize this when you really 
understand what man is and how he 
grows by catching on to and working 
out his point of the great star-dream of 
the Whole. 

His individual dream is his set of 
specifications from the great Architect- 
Dreamer of space and eternity; and his 
wage for thinking out these specifica¬ 
tions into being is joy ever growing, and 
houses, lands, gratitude, fame, and per¬ 
sonal loves added. 

To be right with one’s part of the 
great dream is to make a magnet of 
one’s self that draws every desirable 
thing. To do the will of the Father as 
seen in your dream or ideal is the neces¬ 
sary thing. 

When Theodore Roosevelt was new on 
his presidency job some of his party 
leaders thought he needed instruction. 
Said one of them, “Mr. Roosevelt, you 
must continually feel for the pulse of 
the people and be governed by that.” 

“Why should I spend time feeling for 


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the people's pulse,” demanded Roose¬ 
velt, “when every honest man knows in 
his own heart what is right?” 

It is by feeling the universal pulse 
beat in his own heart and acting upon 
it that Roosevelt is doing so much for 
the world. “I am just an average man,” 
said he in an interview; “the only differ¬ 
ence between me and any ordinary man 
is that when I see a thing ought to be 
done I go straight and do it.” 

Other men as brilliant and as good 
get tangled in personal considerations, 
bad habits of living, red tape. Roose¬ 
velt keeps his eye on his dream, his 
specifications from the heaven within, 
and puts in his best lick wherever and 
whenever there is a chance. If any¬ 
body gets in the way of that lick so 
much the worse for him. 

McKinley put in his best licks after 
first seeing that all his friends were safe 
out of the way, and all the proprieties 
observed. He knew as well as Roose¬ 
velt or Lincoln what was right, but he 


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couldn’t do it if it hurt the feelings of 
his friends—or his wife. 

Did you ever read Kipling’s “How the 
Ship Found Herself”? If not, do so. 
It presents to the imagination a perfect 
picture of the way the universe is find¬ 
ing itself. Kipling describes the new 
ship, every mast, sail, and bit of timber, 
every bolt and screw in place, each well 
fitted, polished, complacent, and proud 
in its proper place. 

Then the ship is launched and sails 
away to sea. As the ship plows ahead, 
rising to the crest of a great wave only 
to plunge headlong into the trough, all 
the little screws and bolts, as well as 
masts and sails, begin to creak and 
squeak and shriek complaints. “Oh, 
you are grinding me to pieces!” shrieks 
the bolt against the wood. The mast 
snaps at the deck; the stanchions groan 
that they are being ruined and can’t 
hold on much longer; the yards and 
masts shriek that their backs are break¬ 
ing and the sails ought to be slit to 


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ribbons for abusing them so. Every 
individual scrap of metal that goes to 
make up the great ship has its own 
complaint to make about the way its 
neighbor abuses it. 

And all this time the ship keeps stead¬ 
ily on, the sailors polish the decks and 
keep the brasses bright, loose a screw 
here, tighten a bolt there, drop a bit of 
oil where it is needed. And after a 
while the various parts get used to their 
places and their work, the creaks and 
shrieks and groans grow softer, and 
finally everything settles contentedly to 
its work, and the sharp complaints die 
away to a full-toned murmur of under¬ 
standing and good will toward each 
other and their work. And so the good 
ship finds herself. 

The world is like that. All these 
ages we have been crying against our 
neighbors and our work. We have mis¬ 
understood and undervalued ourselves 
and each other. But always the good 
ship has kept steadily on her course, 


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and we have been oiled and polished, 
tightened up or loosened out as need 
arose, but ever we have been kept to our 
place in spite of misunderstanding and 
complaint—unless we happened to be 
the flea, or rat, or stowaway variety 
that sometimes infests a ship! 

And now, in this nineteenth and 
twentieth centuries, we common parts 
of the ship are finding ourselves as part 
of the whole. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

How to Become Cosmo-Conscious. 

HE consciousness of self 
in relation to the whole 
universe and God is 
called cosmic conscious¬ 
ness—the consciousness 
of the cosmos. 

It is truly a state of consciousness 
only and it results from an attitude of 
mind that some people are born with 
and others achieve by deliberate prac¬ 
tice. 

It is, too, a matter of growth; for no 
man can achieve cosmic consciousness 
until he has grown up mentally to a 
certain height. 

It is like the growth of a seed in the 
ground. A grain of corn comes to itself 
in the earth. Its individual conscious¬ 
ness is born down under the sod. The 
warmth of the sun draws it upward; 



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by answering the sun’s urge it sends out 
roots, finds its food, and does its work. 
Probably it complains and strains, even 
as you and I. And ever it aspires, even 
as we; ever it stretches upward in an¬ 
swer to the sun’s call, even as you and 
I aspire toward the spiritual sun that 
beams unseen for us, hidden by the 
denseness of our earth surroundings. 

And so the little grain of corn does 
its work and frets its little heart and 
ever reaches upward, until at last it 
pokes its little head above the earth and 
for the first time gets a glimpse of 
something besides itself. Under the 
sod the grain of corn was supremely 
conscious of itself and its limitations 
and strivings; now it sees other people, 
the earth and its relation to the whole; 
it has come into something that to it is 
a sort of cosmic consciousness. 

The coming forth of the butterfly 
from the chrysalis is another parallel to 
this cosmic-consciousness experience; 
also the coming forth of the child from 


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the womb. In each case it is a matter 
of coming forth from a cocoon of self- 
consciousness into a consciousness of 
life, of other people and one’s relations 
to them. 

The ordinary philosophy of life held 
by the common run of people to-day is a 
mental cocoon of self-consciousness in 
which he grows, wriggling, twisting, 
and complaining more or less, until he 
grows up to the point of bursting that 
self-philosophy and coming out of his 
shell into consciousness of a world in 
which he is only one of many all urged 
by a common life purpose from one 
God. To really sense this, as well as 
to see it intellectually, is to experience 
real cosmic consciousness. 

This birth into the cosmic sense gen¬ 
erally comes as suddenly and completely 
as the birth of a butterfly or a babe. 
There is no going back again into the 
chrysalis, no going back into the old 
little-self life. 

But one catches intellectual glimpses 


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of the cosmic before he is really born 
into the cosmic consciousness, just as 
the grub may catch glimpses of the 
world through his shell, may feel his 
growing wings though they are not yet 
unfolded; just as the chick may peep 
at the world before he fully emerges 
from the shell. 

The Bible states that they that come 
unto God “must believe that he is, and 
that he is a rewarder of them that dili¬ 
gently seek him.” Even so, those who 
come into the cosmic sense must believe 
that they are one with the cosmos, so 
that they desire or aspire to know the 
cosmos better and to feel with it. 

In due time comes the experience of 
cosmic consciousness, which is an ex¬ 
perience, but not a provable thing. It 
is a religious experience, known by the 
one who experiences it, but utterly in¬ 
tangible to one who is not ready to 
emerge from the grub state. As well 
talk color to one born blind as to talk cos¬ 
mic consciousness to the ordinary man. 


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Or, rather, to the back-number man; 
for it is the ordinary men and women 
of the twentieth century who are now 
coming into the world of cosmic con¬ 
sciousness. 

The religious experience commonly 
called conversion may be likened to the 
state of the grub when he first feels his 
embryo wings and catches a glimpse of 
the world through his shriveling shell. 
He is still held fast in his cramped en¬ 
vironment, but he begins to realize that 
there is something larger that he will 
find in time. 

This is where the idea of heaven after 
death came in; the human grub of past 
generations died in the grub state; he 
never came to the open of cosmic con¬ 
sciousness, so his heaven did come after 
death, as his instinct and theology 
taught him. The masses died thus. 
Only here and there a seer or a Christ 
found the cosmic consciousness of 
heaven within and now. 

And these, too, realized that the grub 


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man needed time and countless reincar¬ 
nations before he could find heaven 
within and now. This accounts for so 
much future tense in the Bible, and 
harmonizes it with the present tense of 
Jesus’ teaching about heaven and one¬ 
ness. 

The religious experience called by old- 
fashioned Methodists “sanctification” is 
nothing more or less than the cosmic 
consciousness. Many sought sanctifi¬ 
cation but few found it—though more 
than a few claimed it. 

Conversion means turning to God, the 
Cosmic One, and trying to imitate 
Jesus; but sanctification means giving 
to God yourself, all you know and all 
you don’t know, and finding yourself in 
him and him in you as your very heart, 
desire, and moving impulse. 

One sees either of these experiences 
intellectually first—“as through a glass 
darkly”; as through the thinning co¬ 
coon—and, seeing, desires it. 

Then he meets the conditions and 


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experiences it “in his heart” or emo¬ 
tional center, which is the center of the 
star, you know, where God is. 

This “heart” of you is what modern 
psychologists call the subconscious or 
subliminal mind, of which more anon. 
Suffice it here to say that the subcon¬ 
scious mind is about 95 per cent, of you, 
and that it is like a deep reservoir filled 
with thoughts and concepts sent into it 
by way of your conscious intellect. 

The conscious mind is a mere surface 
or gateway to this big reservoir of you. 
Not until the 95 per cent, reservoir of 
your subconscious mind has accepted a 
truth can you really embody that truth 
and be saved by it. This is why the old- 
fashioned religionist belittled intellect; 
he knew it counted for naught as long 
as “the heart” was wrong. 

A hundred years ago it was fashion¬ 
able to seek conversion, because the time 
was ripe for a great many people to 
come into that consciousness. In this 
day and age many of the sons and 


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daughters and grandsons and grand¬ 
daughters of those converted a hundred 
years ago are born and brought up 
already converted; they are born with 
a degree of spiritual consciousness 
never dreamed of before this age, 
except by the occasional prophet and 
savior. 

I knew in Oregon two old people near¬ 
ing the threescore-and-ten milepost, 
who were born in this consciousness. I 
quizzed them long and often about it. 
It was a marvel to me then; now it is 
beautifully clear. They were born con¬ 
verted, and in early youth they came 
into sanctification, or cosmic conscious¬ 
ness. Their beautiful faces and lovely 
lives manifested it. 

My mother was converted when she 
was about thirty-four, and died two 
years later, when I was nine. I thought 
of spiritual things when very young, 
and was converted when I was less than 
twenty-five. My two children have 
practically grown up in spiritual 


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thought, and I am looking for their 
children to be born converted. 

When I was about twenty-seven I 
came into the experience called then 
sanctification, now named cosmic con¬ 
sciousness. So by the law of evolution 
my grandchildren or great-grandchil¬ 
dren may be born cosmic-sensitive! 

In Dr. Maurice Bucke’s book on “Cos¬ 
mic Consciousness” he gives the fol¬ 
lowing as the truths which the new 
consciousness revealed to him:— 

1. He “came to see and know that 
the cosmos is not dead matter but a 
living presence.” 

2. “That the soul of man is immor¬ 
tal; that the universe is so built and 
ordered that without any peradventure 
all things work together for the good of 
each and all.” 

3. “That the foundation principle of 
the world is what we call love, and that 
the happiness of every one is in the long 
run absolutely certain.” 

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To convince your subconscious self of 
these three truths is to achieve the cos¬ 
mic sense; for whatever that subcon¬ 
scious self really accepts is what you 
feel to be true. The intellectual con¬ 
cept does not save you. How can it, 
when conscious mind is but five per 
cent, of your total consciousness? You 
must be convinced of a truth before you 
are saved by that truth. 

A line from Shakespeare points the 
way: “Assume a virtue if you have it 
not.” 

To affirm a truth, acting upon it as 
well as you can, ends in subconscious 
conviction and knowing, or “feeling” 
that truth. Why not, since we are men¬ 
tal beings? 

A high truth firmly held will make 
over the entire mind, conscious and sub¬ 
conscious. To say the truth over to your¬ 
self is to “speak the Word” that creates 
and re-creates you. Without the Word, 
the affirmation, the mental statement, is 
not anything made or remade in you. 


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To achieve the cosmic consciousness, 
affirm it, affirm it. Take special sea¬ 
sons every day, preferably the first min¬ 
utes after waking and the last before 
going to sleep, for special realization 
practice. First, breathe fully and relax 
every muscle. Then affirm positively 
to yourself that the universe is a living 
and loving presence and that all things 
work together for the good and joy of 
each and all. Affirm this several times, 
; positively . 

Then relax as fully as possible—get 
limp all over—and imagine that One 
Living Presence of Love enfolding you 
warmly, filling you with the love and 
wisdom of Itself. Think how you would 
feel if you could feel this to be true. 

Then go about your work and never 
mind the affirmations or the cosmic con¬ 
sciousness, either, for that matter. 

If you are faithful to this realization 
practice you will soon find yourself re¬ 
membering it and thinking and acting 
from it without trying to. 


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And eventually you will find not only 
your thoughts but your very instinct 
acting upon the statements you have 
made for yourself. 

The more good will, enthusiasm, and 
imagination you can put into this prac¬ 
tice the sooner the real cosmic conscious¬ 
ness will be yours. It will be yours 
eventually, anyway, but you can hasten 
it by every bit of aspiration, affirma¬ 
tion, imagination, and steady enthusi¬ 
asm you put into it. 



LIVING. 


CHAPTER IX. 

Telepathy: a New View. 

AN is “an infinite little 
copy of God”; and every¬ 
thing in this world is a 
copy of some portion of 
man. Every invention 
existed first in man’s 
mind. Man has a complete photograph¬ 
ing outfit within him—camera, lens, 
negative, dark room, developers, art 
gallery, and all. The telegraph and 
telephone came from within man. 

You cannot name an invention of any 
sort from the tiniest and simplest to the 
greatest and most complex; you cannot 
name a form in nature, nor a principle 
of growth in nature, that has not its 
parallel and original in man. And 
more inventions are coming every day 
—all coming out of man. 



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And by these things that come out of 
man we are learning what is in man. 

One of the most significant things 
that has come out of man so far is the 
Marconi system of wireless telegraph. 
We haven’t got the wireless telegraph 
all out of man yet—many improve¬ 
ments have been made since wireless 
telegraphy was first announced, and 
more are coming. 

But enough of it has been evolved to 
give us a very good idea of how men 
communicate without using either of 
the ordinary five senses. 

Telepathy is the word coined to cover 
a lot of cases of communication not ex¬ 
plainable through the five senses. 

Such as that case of Bishop Taylor. 
He was traveling his circuit one night, 
and a spring freshet carried coach and 
horses off their footing, the bishop 
barely escaping with his life. His wife 
and daughter were sleeping in their 
separate rooms at home, a hundred 
miles away. At the exact hour of the 


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bishop’s accident wife and daughter 
were roused by a terrible fear, and both 
cried out that the bishop’s life was in 
danger. Later they quieted down and 
slept again. Two days later the bishop 
recounted his experience to them, say¬ 
ing that at the moment of the accident 
he gave himself up for lost, and his soul 
went out to his wife and daughter in 
heart-breaking farewell. 

I need not recount other tales of the 
sort—nearly everybody has had similar 
experiences of his own, or knows some 
one who has. That, under certain con¬ 
ditions, men do communicate with each 
other without using any of the ordinary 
known means for such purpose is a fact 
too well established now to elicit discus¬ 
sion. 

But the method of such communica¬ 
tion is an open question the whole civ¬ 
ilized world is engaged in discussing. 
Several societies for psychical research 
spend much time in sifting evidence 
with a view to settling upon some one 


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theory as official. They are after a sort 
of Newtonian law that cannot be dis¬ 
puted. 

So far the results are a mass of evi¬ 
dence, more or less reliable, and several 
conflicting theories. The Spiritualists 
say spirits do it all. Professor Hyslop 
is now convinced that spirits do some 
of the communicating. Others throw 
spirits to the dogs and insist that every 
spirit in the flesh is able to send and to 
receive mental messages—under cer¬ 
tain unknown conditions. 

Now please remember that all these 
views are merely individual opinions, 
based upon the same mass of circum¬ 
stantial evidence. Nobody has proved 
anything beyond the phenomena them¬ 
selves. And all these people are now 
inclined to agree that 'probably every 
man has within himself the ability to 
telepath, and that probably most of the 
common experiences of telepathy take 
place without the intervention of other 
spirits, in the body or out. 


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I am inclined to think that all these 
phenomena take place within and by 
the power of the individual himself, 
without outside disembodied spiritshav¬ 
ing anything whatever to do with it. I 
believe man is his own telegraph and 
marconigraph for sending and receiv¬ 
ing messages, and that the higher his 
mind projects into the ethers of pure 
spirit, the cosmic sense, the more he will 
learn about his own marconigraph and 
the better he will be able to use it. 

This does not mean that I don’t be¬ 
lieve in disembodied spirits, or in their 
power to communicate with man. There 
may be disembodied conscious souls; I 
neither believe in them nor disbelieve 
in them. The case stands simply “not 
proven.” The phenomena that con¬ 
vinced Professor Hyslop did not come 
up to my “test conditions.” It seemed 
to me that he accepted spirits on the 
say-so of a woman who afterward dis¬ 
credited her own testimony. Where¬ 
upon Professor Hyslop discredited her 


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to save his scientific face! Of course 
the professor is a trained observer; so 
am I. And I have nothing to lose and 
the truth to gain if new evidence 
changes my mind. 

But of this I am reasonably sure: 
that if there are disembodied conscious 
spirits who communicate with men they 
are equipped with something like the 
same sort of telepath apparatus that 
embodied spirits have. 

Now let us see what we can discover 
from the wireless telegraph of Marconi, 
for verily man is like unto it, as Jesus 
might say. Analogy is after all the 
best proof of a thing, particularly when 
the subject of the analogy comes out of 
man with whom the comparison is made. 

First, then, the wireless telegraph is 
based upon the ethers in which we live 
and move and have our being. The 
heavenly ethers convey its every mes¬ 
sage. It is the heavenly ethers through 
which the message is conveyed, and it 


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is the earth which receives the current. 
Up in the heavens, at the top of a tall 
rod, the message is received, and down 
the rod it comes, to be received close to 
earth if not in the very earth itself. 

Think of space as a living, love- 
vibrating presence; a divine presence 
that vibrates perhaps to the tone of Nir¬ 
vana. Every activity of man and of 
whirling world interrupts the current 
of this basic Nirvana vibration, and 
thereby conveys its import to other indi¬ 
viduals and to God. 

In speaking I send out certain sounds 
that interrupt the etheric current in cer¬ 
tain definite rhythm. Your ears are 
fine instruments for measuring the 
current-interruptions I am making in 
the ethers. Seeing, hearing, smelling, 
tasting, feeling, are all based upon this 
same interruption of the basic vibra¬ 
tion-tone of the universal substance, 
which is electric in its nature. 

The telephone, telegraph, and wire¬ 
less all are based upon this same prin- 


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ciple of conveying messages by inter¬ 
ruption of an electric current. 

In telegraphing, the electricity is 
made to vibrate through the wire, and 
the interruptions are made by tapping 
a key. In wireless telegraphing the 
vibration of the upper air is used, the 
interruptions coming from the key. 

Close to earth there are so many 
other interruptions of current taking 
place that the wireless key cannot make 
itself distinguished. 

Note the difference between telegraph 
and wireless: in telegraphing, the cur¬ 
rent is confined to the wire and the mes¬ 
sage follows that line only; but a wire¬ 
less message goes out in all directions, 
as the rays of the sun go out. 

To get a wire you must be on the line. 
To get a wireless you can be anywhere; 
the only necessity is that you are keyed 
to the message sent. Unless a ship’s 
instrument is keyed aright it cannot 
receive the most insistent message sent 
out from a wireless station. 


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To have a line up to the clear spaces, 
and to be tuned to the sender, are the 
two absolute requirements of wireless 
telegraphy. 

And of telepathy. The man whose 
thought stays close to earth; who lives 
in the tangle of cross-purposes; who 
looks on the outward appearances as 
the important thing; such a man must 
depend upon his five earth-senses for 
most of the messages he receives. But 
the man who runs up a line into the 
clear blue of the cosmic senses receives 
telepaths and spiritual “leads" the 
earthy man never dreams of. 

I wonder if intuition is the heaven- 
wire by which we receive our wireless 
messages. And I am sure aspiration and 
inspiration are messages sent over the 
heaven-wire. 

In connection with this idea I recall 
certain discoveries of Dr. Baraduc’s in 
Paris, and several alleged photograph 
reproductions of strange psychic phe- 


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nomena produced by him. Dr. Baraduc 
has succeeded in photographing what 
he calls the mental ball. This, he says, 
is a luminous sphere that floats at the 
end of a misty cable three or four feet 
above the head of a person. Dr. Baraduc 
thinks it is through this misty cable and 
mental ball that people receive tele¬ 
pathic messages. It may be true. If so 
I wonder if the wireless telegraph peo¬ 
ple could not solve some of their difficul¬ 
ties by putting a metal globe at the top 
of their poles. 

Dr. Baraduc says that at death this 
mental ball and its anchoring cable float 
free and dissolve like smoke. He shows 
photos of this phenomenon. He like¬ 
wise shows photos of the spirit or life 
or aura floating off from the body and 
dissolving in long vapor-like filaments 
and streamers. 

I cannot prove to the five-senses man 
that he has within him the spiritual 
instruments for sending and receiving 
messages by wireless. None of these 


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spiritual things can be proved to such a 
man, any more than color can be proved 
to one born blind to it. Spiritual things 
are discerned by new spiritual senses. 
“Ye must be born again,” if you are still 
densely material. 

If you cannot see by analogy, your 
spiritual, cosmic-sense eyes are indeed 
closed, and more time must be allowed 
before you come out of the grub-state. 

Let us assume telepathy and learn 
how to use it. Nothing like doing a 
thing to teach us the truth about it. 

It may be that telepathy has not 
always been a practical thing among 
all human beings; that it was merely 
inherent, as the butterfly’s wings were 
inherent in the grub; waiting for a cer¬ 
tain stage of development to unfold it. 
All through the ages there have been a 
few peculiar persons who manifested 
the ability to telepath. And many peo¬ 
ple of the psychic order have had 
special experiences in thought transfer- 


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ence. But all cases seem to have been 
sporadic and impossible to repeat. 

Never until this age has there been 
any attempt made to classify telepathic 
phenomena and utilize the law of them. 

All this thinking about it means that 
the hour is at hand for unfolding our 
telepathic wings, so to speak. 

One of the first requisites for tele¬ 
pathic communication seems to be that 
mysterious something called “rapport.” 
Two people who love each other and are 
harmonious in thought can exchange 
thoughts without tangible means of 
conveyance, while two inharmonious 
persons seem to make no exchange 
at all. 

Dr. Baraduc and his late wife com¬ 
municated telepathically, and Dr. Bara¬ 
duc believes and seems to have proved 
by his photographic experiments that 
there was a sort of spiritual cord be¬ 
tween him and his wife, communicat¬ 
ing through those mental balls of which 
I spoke before. Many seers have de- 


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dared that they could see filmy cords 
connecting certain people together. 

Such spiritual lines probably do exist 
between certain people. It would not 
be strange if these very spiritual lines 
were “the pattern in the heavens” that 
inspired the telegraph; and that one’s 
thoughts are the “Morse code” under¬ 
stood and translated by those on the 
line. 

It looks, then, as if there is a telepathy 
of wires as well as a telepathy of wire¬ 
less. And the former is more easily 
proved and attracts more attention than 
the latter, because it is more nearly de¬ 
veloped as a provable thing. 

And it looks as if language is truly 
inspired, as the psalmist says; since cer¬ 
tain people are really “attached to each 
other,” as we say,—attached by spir¬ 
itual lines that are real telepath wires. 

And this reminds me of another 
phase of telegraphy and telepathy: we 
are to have color pictures flashed over 
the wires, just as many people have had 


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visions flashed over their telepathic 
wires. 

If one admits this hint at a hypothe¬ 
sis, it is easy to see how to cultivate 
telepathy. Cultivate harmony and love 
and community of interests. 

Telepathy by wire has existed for 
nobody can guess how long. I have 
seen many cases of it, where two people 
exchanged thoughts many times every 
day often without even guessing that 
they did so. William’s mother and I 
must have a line up, judging by the 
number of messages we exchange on 
little items concerning the household. 
And William and I are always exchang¬ 
ing thoughts, sometimes sending and 
receiving messages by intention, but 
more often involuntarily. 

We have no mental reservations be¬ 
tween us to act as grounders for our 
thoughts. 

And this brings me to the main rea¬ 
son that almost settles me in the belief 
that telepathy by spiritual wire, and 


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telepathy by wireless, are being un¬ 
folded in our consciousness just as tele¬ 
graph and wireless are being unfolded 
in the world. 

I said William and I have no mental 
reservations to ground our messages. 
Absolute honesty is the electricity that 
charges the spiritual wires between 
people and makes possible the transfer¬ 
ence of thought. A steady current of 
good will is the energy that carries the 
thought. Disingenuousness insulates 
one’s mind so that no spiritual current 
of good will goes out to another. The 
deceitful, secretive person keeps his 
good will for himself. 

Do you see what a wise provision of 
nature, or life, or God, this is? Sup¬ 
pose all the villains of all the ages had 
been able to run out lines to their victims 
and read their thoughts, purposes, and 
plans. Suppose the village gossip could 
thus get a line on everything . 

As long as there are villains there 
must be means of insulating thought, 


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and nature has provided that the villain 
himself afford that means. He puts up 
walls of secrecy and dwells within in 
fear of what is outside. His good will 
to himself turns sour and ferments, 
breeding all sorts of boogers to scare 
him. So, “the wicked flee when no man 
pursueth.” 

Not until a man catches glimpses of 
his oneness with all creatures is it safe 
to trust him to read the thoughts of 
others. Just in proportion as his good 
will flows outward will he come into 
rapport with others, where he can some¬ 
times read their thoughts. 

Selfishness and its secretiveness and 
fear are the barriers against rapports 
with those about us. When we are 
evolved enough to throw down these 
barriers, be absolutely honorable and 
honest and kind with our neighbors and 
ourselves, we shall find rapports estab¬ 
lishing on all sides. 

To think and do and good-will unto 
others as you would have them think 



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and do and good-will unto you, is the 
first and indispensable condition for 
telepathy: To love your neighbor is to 
send out a feeler, a spiritual wire of 
Good Will toward him. In due time he 
will feel that feeler and connect with it, 
and there you have your rapport. 

The second requisite for giving and 
receiving conscious telepathic messages 
is definiteness of thought. I once saw 
in a New York paper some pictures 
made by photographing thoughts. One 
of these pictures represented the Flat¬ 
iron Building. The building appeared 
as a wavering pillar of black smoke, 
with here and there near the top a few 
spots of light that represented win¬ 
dows. 

Too many of our thoughts are too 
wavering and inaccurate to be recog¬ 
nized by the percipient. 

In telepathic experiments take simple 
things, observe them carefully, and pic¬ 
ture them mentally in exact detail. 

In sending word messages speak the 



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words very distinctly and slowly in your 
thought, repeating several times, spell¬ 
ing out carefully, following out each 
letter accurately as you spell, all with¬ 
out moving the lips. This is good men¬ 
tal practice and justifies the time spent, 
even if the results in message bearing 
are less than perfectly satisfactory. 

Definiteness of thought will develop in 
you by practice in this way, and in other 
ways, and with every year you will find 
yourself growing more positive and 
exact and forceful in your thoughts, as 
well as more sensitive to the thoughts 
of others. 

To receive another’s thought sit 
quietly in the silence, let go, and be 
ready to receive. 

Practice will do the rest for you. So 
much for telepathy through personal 
rapport. 

Now let us sum up with a brief state¬ 
ment of the nature and uses of telep¬ 
athy. 


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Just as there are two sorts of mind, 
conscious and subconscious, so there are 
two kinds of telepathy. One is subcon¬ 
scious and wireless, and practically be¬ 
yond our control. Subconscious tele¬ 
paths come to us incessantly from all 
directions. To all intents and purposes 
we swim in a sea of such messages. 
And our subconsciousness takes in any 
of those messages which it is keyed to 
receive. Every ganglionic center in 
your body—beginning with the great 
sympathetic center, the solar plexus, 
which may be likened to New York 
City; from that on down to the smallest 
ganglion in your body, of which there 
are thousands, that may be likened to 
the little outlying country villages of 
our land;—every one of these centers is 
a marconigraph station, each keyed by 
you to receive certain messages from 
the atmospheric and etheric vibrations 
in which you live. 

And this is not all: every cell in your 
body is an individual receiver of mes- 


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sages on its own account. And each and 
every cell acts upon its messages re¬ 
ceived, even as you and I. 

Each receiving ganglion and cell is 
keyed by you. Remember that. How 
to do the keying we shall learn later. 

Now note that all this receiving of 
messages by the 95 per cent, self of you 
is done under your conscious mind, out¬ 
side it. But the reports on those mes¬ 
sages come up to the 5 per cent, con¬ 
scious self of you, by way of the nerves. 

All this bears exact analogy to the 
work of ex-President Roosevelt’s com¬ 
mission on the prevention of cruelty to 
farmers and their wives. The commis¬ 
sion did outside of Washington, which 
stands for the head , all their work of re¬ 
ceiving messages from the farmer in the 
95 per cent, self of our country; after¬ 
ward collating and co-ordinating those 
messages and reporting the resulting 
opinions back to the conscious U. S. self 
represented by Congress. 

It now remains for Congress to key 


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this country so that its next messages 
from the farmers will report better 
things. 

Note that Washington does not hear 
and know when you and I get messages 
from over in England or Germany; it 
is not informed when we thresh out our 
discontents in town meetings and local 
clubs; but the consensus of these things 
it receives in Congress, the conscious 
U. S. self, through the regular chan¬ 
nels. And Washington on its own ac¬ 
count receives messages from foreign 
countries which do not come by the sub¬ 
conscious route; just as you and I re¬ 
ceive occasionally a conscious telepathic 
message. 

Telepathy is a natural power of every 
human being, used in the main uncon¬ 
sciously, or rather subconsciously; but 
susceptible of development on the con¬ 
scious plane, through aspiration, con¬ 
centration, definiteness of thought, and 
practice. 


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CHAPTER X. 

Mental Immigration. 

E are all destined to come 
into rapport with the 
whole world through 
the wireless medium of 
the cosmic conscious¬ 
ness. Always this rap¬ 
port has been ours subconsciously. We 
have ever lived in a sea of messages 
coming to us from those about us, and 
from those who lived and thought before 
us and went away leaving the air 
charged with their messages. 

We are heirs to all the ages of 
thought, and we are living in and by a 
sea of thought which we draw upon sub¬ 
consciously but none the less effectually. 

This great sub-surface reservoir of 
ourselves composes about 95 per cent, 
of us, and through it we have been re¬ 
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upon, ten thousand telepathic messages 
from all corners of earth and heaven— 
messages we receive as coming in most 
cases from within ourselves but which 
really come from without and are re¬ 
ceived by us. 

There is no way of deciding how 
many of our actions and feelings are 
due to this subconscious reception of 
telepathic messages, but it is safe to 
say that somewhere about half or three 
quarters or more of our feelings and 
actions are thus stimulated from with¬ 
out. 

So large is the proportion that some 
scientists have declared we are alto¬ 
gether the product of our environment, 
and these same scientists looked wholly 
upon the physically traceable part of 
our environment at that. 

Their instruments failed to measure 
the telepathic, the occult forces of our 
environment. It took the twentieth cen¬ 
tury to develop man to the point of 
glimpsing this unseen and potent side 


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of life, which the greatest scientists are 
now investigating. 

And in the meantime you and I and 
they have been growing in wisdom and 
knowledge and wickedness mainly by 
receiving and acting upon these same 
subconscious telepaths; calling the im¬ 
pulse our own. 

They are “our own,” in the sense that 
we are all one, using the same air, light, 
sunshine,'wisdom, God, the same psy¬ 
chic and mental atmosphere to grow in 
and by. They are “our own” impulses 
in exactly the same way that the center 
of the star is each point’s own center. 

By that same token do you see why 
it is so hard for one of us to be fully 
saved from sin, sickness, death, untrue 
thought, until all are saved? 

All the time we are receiving some 
measure of impulse toward these things 
by subconscious telepathy. 

But there is a way, and that way is 
indicated by the latest invention of the 


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wireless telegraph, that enables a receiv¬ 
ing station to be so keyed that it will 
fail to pick up messages in other keys. 

Every individual has the key of this 
problem within himself. He can key 
himself to any pitch he desires, so that 
thought waves of certain other pitches 
will pass by unrecorded. 

The emotions or sympathies are what 
decide our pitch . They are the life of 
the subconscious 95 per cent, self of us, 
and upon their pitch depends the kind 
of thought vibrations we answer to in 
spite of ourselves and all our high pur¬ 
poses and conscious desires. 

These emotions and sympathies con¬ 
stitute what the Bible calls “the heart.” 
What a man is keyed to in his heart 
determines what he attracts as environ¬ 
ment and heart impulse. And remem¬ 
ber—environment includes that subcon¬ 
scious sea of telepathic messages, race 
beliefs, heredities in which we live and 
by which we are subconsciously im¬ 
pelled. 


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Herein lies the reason that the magnet 
man does not always attract what he is 
conscious of desiring. His conscious 
desire may be at cross-purposes with his 
subconscious desire. And the subcon¬ 
scious self, you know, weighs nineteen 
times as much as the conscious self! No 
wonder its desires rule. No wonder its 
keynote counts in the harmonies or dis¬ 
cords of your life. 

But that little 5 per cent, self of you 
is mighty. It is “God in the Highest” 
of you. It is “Lord God” of you, and 
of the Bible; and it is given all power 
in your subconscious self, as well as in 
your conscious self. 

That little 5 per cent, self it is which 
keys your emotions and sympathies to 
their message-receiving work. 

That little 5 per cent, self is mightier 
than all below it, and its WORD is 
LAW. Even its idle word is law,— 
makes its subconscious mark upon you 
and keys you to more idle words. 

And these idle words have life in 


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themselves and attract after their 
kind. 

The idle words, like the good words, 
and the evil words, each attracts after 
its kind, and each builds up its marconi 
station in you, keyed to messages of its 
kind. 

You are like the United States, and 
your 5 per cent, conscious self is a sort 
of Ellis Island. The good, bad, and in¬ 
different from all the world appear at 
Ellis Island, are inspected, some turned 
back, others invited to come in and set¬ 
tle. Those who are allowed to come in 
go and settle where there are others of 
their kind. Some get by on false pre¬ 
tenses. Others are turned back because 
the inspectors at Ellis Island misjudge, 
or because a prejudice—a pre-judgment 
—excludes them, as in the case of cer¬ 
tain anarchists. 

So you sit at your Ellis Island and 
ten thousand thoughts pass in review 
before you. 


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And some you turn back, for good 
reason or for prejudice, and they go 
their way leaving you untouched, un¬ 
changed. 

And some thoughts you invite in and 
entertain, and they go their way into 
the big America of your 95 per cent, 
sub-self, and there they find a congenial 
settlement where they make their 
homes, breed after their kind, and re¬ 
ceive and act upon outside telepaths of 
their sort. 

But most of the thoughts that pass 
your Ellis Island are of the kind you 
call indifferent—neither good nor bad, 
just so-so; good as most people’s 
thoughts, you guess; “good enough,” 
“harmless anyway”; and these you let 
in, too, and they find congenial thought- 
towns and settle there, breeding after 
their kind and receiving and sending 
subconscious telepaths to match. 

And some of your settlements of 
thoughts are good and make you feel 
good; and others are evil and give you 


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evil feelings; and some of them settle 
in slums, and make you feel very bad 
indeed when you are conscious of them 
at all! 

And your little Ellis Island did it all! 
If you didn’t exactly create your sub¬ 
conscious America, at least you invited 
folks in to settle it, and its government 
and its evils as well as its blessings are 
the natural inevitable result, with no¬ 
body to blame but yourself. 

And you are not to blame because 
you didn’t know any better and you are 
learning by experience. 

So now you are going to be very strict 
on your Ellis Island hereafter! No 
more criminals or incompetents are to 
get in—that’s decided! You will turn 
the undesirables back with a denial and 
welcome the desirables with a yes, an 
affirmation. 

But what to do with the ones already 
in, that’s the question! How shall you 
go about it to get yourself keyed above 
all these settlers that seem so firmly 


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planted and so persistent in increasing 
and multiplying after their kind, and so 
determined to smuggle in other influ¬ 
ences of their kind by the subconscious 
telepathic route? 


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CHAPTER XI. 

Action and Rest. 

OSITIVE affirmation is 
the mandate that keys 
your body; just as the 
mandates sent out by 
Congress key the United 
States. 

But one must do some¬ 
thing besides issue laws to his being, 
and command his thought-people to 
carry out the laws. He must also rest 
from his mental labors of lawmaking 
and give his thought-people, conscious 
and subconscious, plenty of time for 
rest and recreation. “God giveth to his 
beloved in sleep.” Man gives out his 
thought-force and emotion while he 
thinks and works, and he must have the 
rest of change and of sleep or it will be 
all giving out, until he is powerless to 
give further. 



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Action must alternate with rest, in¬ 
spiration with expiration; and it is up 
to you as the lawmaker of your being 
to see that every cell of your body gets 
its full meed of rest and change. 

And how are you to know how much 
rest your bodily functions need, as a 
whole or in part? Only by listening to 
their report. The joy of being is the 
proof that you are not overworking at 
least a part of your organization of lit¬ 
tle cell beings. 

To keep a good “head of vim” as 
Stephens calls it—a good head of joy- 
vim—is the only safe and sane and sure 
way to “enjoy God.” And that is your 
chief end in life. 

It is true that once in a while you can 
keep on working until you get your sec¬ 
ond wind, or your third wind. But you 
can't keep on living on your second or 
third wind, and the man who tries to 
will come out as Dr. Worcester did. He 
will have to take a long rest to balance 
the long overworking on second wind. 


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The joy of living is the proof of right 
living—the proof that you are not mak¬ 
ing galley slaves of a large proportion 
of your little cell people. “Shorter 
hours and better work” for your ener¬ 
gies is the law of rightness in you as 
well as in the commercial world. 

Just as wise business men nowadays 
look after the clean living, education, 
and recreation of their workmen, so you 
must look after the needs and desires of 
your little thought-people. 

You stand in relation to your cell 
lives and energies exactly as God stands 
in relation to you. Don’t be an exact¬ 
ing and slave-making god! Love your 
energies, joy in them, keep them well 
recreated by rest and by change of 
work. 

Do not try to pass fatigue barriers! 
What’s the use of it? Keep a good head 
of joy-vim every day and all day and 
you will do better work and more of it, 
and be in better trim to get your second 
wind or third wind if sometime it be¬ 


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comes a real necessity to endure a 
strain. 

Take kindly wise care not to over¬ 
work any part of your body. Don’t 
make a mill hand of yourself with long 
hours of work without thought and love. 

And don’t let too much of your 
thought evaporate out of the top of your 
head while your body idles. Direct 
much of your thought through your 
body in intelligent work, but don’t pass 
the fatigue barrier in any one kind of 
work unnecessarily. Let go and change 
when your body begins to want to. 

Your instinct is the true guide in this 
—trust it and keep on. 

Practice makes perfect and develops 
power. 

To exercise all parts of the body and 
mind in turn, always changing the field 
of exercise before the joy of being—not 
joy of doing—has been lowered, is to 
fulfill the chief end of man, which is the 
enjoyment of Good, or God. 

But all this must come from an inner 


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heart impulse, not from a mere dead 
head plan. 

To love the thing you do is necessary 
to enjoying it and God. 

And to do it for a purpose larger than 
that of mere personal development is 
an absolute demand of the God in you. 
You are a member of “one Stupendous 
Whole” whose soul is your soul; and this 
soul of you cannot be satisfied except 
your self is developed, not for you alone, 
hut for the good of the whole. 

Useful work for the good of others is 
the demand of your being, and without 
it you can’t enjoy God in you, no matter 
how systematically you may exercise 
your energies. 

A POLARIZING PURPOSE IS AN 
INHERENT DEMAND OF YOUR 
BEING. 

To really enjoy living you must work 
for others, and do it in such a way that 
your own development will come 
through your useful work for others. 

If you run a grocery store with the 


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primary purpose of getting money for 
yourself you cannot fully enjoy the 
work nor God in it. If your primary 
purpose is the real artist’s purpose of 
supplying people’s wants in the best pos¬ 
sible manner at fair prices, there is only 
one thing can spoil your enjoyment of 
God in the work, and that is, lowering 
your head of joy-vim by too steady ap¬ 
plication without change for re- creation. 

If you love your work and work at 
it intelligently, not immoderately, you 
help the world along and develop your¬ 
self at the same time. 

And if your recreations are well 
chosen, affording complete relaxation 
from business thoughts and the inter¬ 
ested activity of entirely different 
thought-areas and muscle-areas, your 
development will be so much the more 
rapid and complete and soul-enjoying. 

The soul-satisfying life is one of all- 
around activity and development, the 
life of poise—the natural life, the sim¬ 
ple life, the life in which relaxation 


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equals application, and where, no mat¬ 
ter how complex the mode of living, mind 
and body are free to turn readily and 
with joy from one thing to another. 

Our old conception of life is a straight 
line, a strain ahead; now we are learn¬ 
ing that it is a poise, a balance of think¬ 
ing and doing that releases love in every 
activity. 

Does all this sound complex? It is 
really very simple—it means simply let 
go mentally , and follow desire. 

It means believe that God desires in 
you, and that by following desire you 
will learn to fulfill the chief end of man, 
enjoyment of God, or Good. 

If there is strain in your life it comes 
from an unnatural idea of life. Don’t 
try to live up to anything—let go and 
let the impulse from within move you 
to every action. Otherwise, don’t act. 
Accept the inner impulse as good, no 
matter how it may seem to disagree with 
your old man-made ideas of duty. 

This new way of taking your good- 


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ness for granted and living from the 
inner impulse may turn your living 
upside down for a time. When I came 
to see the artificialness and strain of my 
life (some fifteen years ago) and let go, 
I went to sleep for three weeks! 

Waked up and felt “I ought”— 

Affirmed myself good, and my sleep- 
impulse good, turned over and went to 
sleep again. 

In between sleeps I did what was ab¬ 
solutely necessary to keep others in the 
home from starving. 

At last one afternoon came a real 
desire to get up and clean up the kitchen 
and get a nice dinner! 

Ever after I laid for my desire-im¬ 
pulse, followed as far as it moved me, 
then rested again while another desire 
brewed within me. 

The result was (1) the real enjoy¬ 
ment of good in working out the im¬ 
pulse; (2) increasing faith and proof 
that my desire-impulses were right 
guides to action, and the lack of them 


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the right signal for inaction; (3) an 
increasing number of these desire-im¬ 
pulses from within, with increasing 
physical energy to carry them out. 

Right impulse—and peace of mind— 
and physical force came to me through 
trusting and acting with my own desire- 
impulses and now-impulses as the voice 
of God within me. 

I found the kingdom of heaven within 
me, where life-impulse is generated, 
and made my thoughts and actions right 
with it. 

All other things were promptly added. 

Health of self came first, but not com¬ 
plete health. Work-impulse came, with 
power to do. 

The desire to heal others came, and 
with it the power. That desire came 
before I was healed myself, altogether; 
and I found self-healing came faster if 
I healed others, and that my limitations 
did not hinder other people from re¬ 
sponding to my “perfect word.” 

How I used the subconscious in many 


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healings of others in the family and 
neighborhood; how I became a sun- 
center of healing and discovered and 
applied several new principles of spir¬ 
itual healing are told in my little “Ex¬ 
periences in Self-Healing” and “How 
to Wake the Solar Plexus,” and need 
not be repeated here. 

I found the healing of others the best 
practice for personal healing and power 
and development. 

Always begin treatments for self or 
others with (1) meditation; (2) then 
full breathing; (3) then denials if 
needed; (4) then positive affirmations, 
repeated; (5) then silence, which may 
terminate in sleep. 


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CHAPTER XII. 

The Practice of Prosperity. 

AN is a magnet. To be 
opulent within is to 
charge one’s self with the 
magnetism that attracts 
friends, ideas, money. 
The right attitude of 
mind will bring wealth through any 
business channel that does not run coun¬ 
ter to the individual’s belief in right. 

First, choose the business you desire, 
the one you feel fitted for or specially 
adapted for. If you can’t choose—just 
now—then adapt yourself to the busi¬ 
ness you find yourself in. To love your 
work, those you meet, yourself, and 
your methods and goods, is absolutely 
essential to growing a success. These 
may all become irksome, after your suc¬ 
cessful business is established, and your 
success still goes on; but to create 



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a successful business you must put into 
its every detail unlimited quantities of 
loving interest and thought. 

It is easier to generate the loving 
interest if you can choose your work; 
but it is quite possible to do it in any 
business by which you can serve man’s 
real needs. 

I doubt if a new thought man can suc¬ 
ceed as a saloon keeper, because saloons 
pander to that which destroys man, not 
builds him; and knowledge of this fact 
takes the heart out of the saloon man 
who learns that all men are his brothers. 

To grow success, begin where you 
must, if not where you would like to. 
Put your loving thought into making 
the greatest possible artistic success of 
each detail of the work as it comes up. 
A big success is made up of ten thousand 
little successes of detail, all pieced to¬ 
gether with faith and love for the work 
as a whole. 

The spirit in you is the only reliable 
guide to your successful business as a 


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whole. Ask yourself what you can 
begin on now to grow success. The 
thing lies straight before you in the 
thing you can do or are doing now— 
unless your spirit is urging you to some 
certain definite step into something else. 

When the spirit of you urges a defi¬ 
nite step, take it; until then put your 
love into making successes every hour 
right where you are. 

To make a hundred detail-successes 
a day where you are, and to use some 
of your recreation time and thought in 
preparing yourself with a good stock of 
tools to work with in some new line to¬ 
ward which your being inclines you, is 
the road to the sort of success your being 
calls for. 

But remember that your chief end is 
to enjoy good in every day and hour of 
work. Put your loving interest into the 
now, and ask your spirit for light on 
how to arrange your details so as to get 
out of them quickest results in joy and 
growth. 


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Ask your desire-spirit these things, 
and follow its urge in faith. Do not 
ask your neighbors or friends, or your 
own sense of conventions. Follow your 
desire-impulse and have faith in results. 

Shut your eyes and ears from hear¬ 
ing of criticisms, except from your 
desire-self. 

Practice proves. 

You are the worker-out of your suc¬ 
cesses. Nobody can help you except as 
they can perchance supply you a tool 
to work with. You must use the tool. 

Education supplies tools to you. Your 
friend may teach you bookkeeping, for 
instance, and you use it or not, as your 
desire-urge directs. 

But conventions are not tools! they 
are ruts made by other men. Use them 
when it makes easier going, but when 
your desire-urge prefers a new path, 
a short cut, for God’s sake take it. Only 
so can you make tracks of your own in 
the sands of time. Be the real thing by 
following your own desire-urge into new 


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ways. Who knows but the world needs 
your new ways? And anyway you need 
them to fulfill the chief end of your 
being here at all. 

To love your work; to follow your de¬ 
sire in growing it; to use tools, methods, 
as your desire urges; to use common 
sense in all things; to be just to yourself 
in money matters before you are lavish 
with the other man; to count in all the 
costs and allow yourself a fair profit 
above everything; to pay cash and re¬ 
quire cash (or as near it as possible); 
to make due allowance everywhere for 
the Unexpected; to manage always a 
savings balance accumulated for the 
Day of Opportunity; to do all this in 
joy; to grow in wisdom and in knowl¬ 
edge and in loving-kindness by doing it; 
and by doing it to help and bless the 
world you live in;—these constitute the 
Successful Life every soul desires. 

And every soul can work it out if he 
will trust his own inner urge and value 


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his joy of being above all material re¬ 
sults. 

The treatment for success is the same 
as for health; repeated affirmations, 
present tense, positive mood. I AM 
what I desire to manifest. 

Do not try to influence others—be and 
do the thing that attracts you. 

Remember—success, like heaven, is 
an attitude of mind that is creating a 
local habitation. Success comes first in 
thought, and as the thought pattern ap¬ 
pears, Love creates in its image and like¬ 
ness. 

Read “The Science of Getting Rich,” 
by Wallace D. Wattles, and my own 
“How to Grow Success,” and “How to 
Wake the Solar Plexus” and “Experi¬ 
ences in Self-Healing.” The latter con¬ 
tains my own experiences in outgrow¬ 
ing poverty. 


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CHAPTER XIII. 

The Principles and Practice of 
Health and Prosperity. 

WONDER if you are now 
realizing the great truth 
that this universe is a 
big Living, Loving Pres¬ 
ence that feels and 
thinks and loves through 
you and in you. 

And that the chief end of you is to be 
the glory of this Presence, and enjoy it 
forever. 

To know thyself is to know the Divine 
Presence and its ways within you. 

And the way to this knowledge and 
illumination is the way of aspiration and 
inspiration; the way of communion with 
the One Loving Presence; the way of 
dedication and consecration; the way of 
resignation to the will of the One Pres¬ 
ence, trusting that step by step the wis- 



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dom of the One Presence will reveal 
itself. 

Solomon’s prayer is the only availing 
one: “Give therefore thy servant an un¬ 
derstanding heart.” 

It is not enough to pray for, or aspire 
to, wisdom, unless one is first given over 
to be the servant of that wisdom. And 
neither is it enough to ask wisdom for 
self alone, for wisdom is One, and grants 
no favors to you that are disfavors to 
your neighbor. 

Not until your very subconscious cen¬ 
ter is given over to desiring the good of 
all can you come into real rapport with 
the Love Presence, so that the real joy 
as well as the wisdom of it is yours. 

You cannot enjoy God, the Loving 
Presence, except you glorify and exalt 
it above everything, above YOURSELF. 

Resignation, consecration, aspiration, 
then exaltation of spirit. 

After this all things shall be added. 

And the work is all done in your 
thought. 


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Remember that your thought keys 
your body. 

This does not mean that the body is 
nothing and has no effect on thought, 
that thought is all there is to it. Thought 
is not a vaporous nothing thrown off by 
the body; thought is of the same iden¬ 
tical material as the body. 

The body is congealed thought , and 
that which we commonly call thought 
is positive to the body, and acts upon it. 

Thought is to the body what steam 
is to ice. 

Thought is like steam generated in a 
boiler and turned to moving our bodies 
intelligently. 

Think a moment: What part of your 
body can control a thought in your 
mind? Can your whole body put a 
thought out of your mind? No. Your 
entire body may be so paralyzed it can¬ 
not act, and yet there will be thoughts 
in your mind. 

But a single thought of your mind can 
move your body in any direction; a joy 


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thought can galvanize it to life; a fear 
thought can stop its machinery forever. 
Just one thought can make or unmake 
a body, but a hundred bodies cannot 
stop a thought, once recognized. 

But this does not mean that thought 
and body are separate things, any more 
than it means that thought is powerless 
or the body no matter. It just means 
that without thought man falls down 
and scrambles on all fours; that 
thought is the wisdom-power that 
directs the action and evolution of body, 
and without it we revert to imbeciles 
and idiots. 

No, it is not the body that makes the 
idiot; his mother’s thought ran amuck 
somewhere and pied her unborn babe’s 
poor little thought-built but negative 
body, so that the real self cannot think 
through it. The idiot’s body is an in¬ 
complete thing that limits the expres¬ 
sion of its thought. 

For, though the body cannot control 
thought because it is negative to the 


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thought that expresses through it, yet it 
can limit the output of thought, just as 
a small or incomplete flour mill can 
limit the output of flour. The mill does 
not regulate the supply of wheat to be 
made into flour, but its capacity deter¬ 
mines the amount and quality of flour 
it can turn out. 

In the case of the mill, both mill and 
wheat are negative, having no effect in 
changing each other. But the human 
thought mill, the complete body includ¬ 
ing its brain, is very greatly affected by 
the thought it turns out. 

This is fact beyond peradventure of 
doubt; and this one fact looks to me 
like proof positive that both brain and 
thought are developed and used by a 
YOU that is positive to both; that 
stands in relation to brain, body, and 
thought as the mill man to mill and 
wheat; is positive to both, and changes 
and improves both as fast as he can to 
increase size and quality of output. 

It looks to me as if this positive YOU 


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is the evolutionary energy of the uni¬ 
verse, and is identical with “the un¬ 
known God” that Paul tried to “declare” 
unto the Athenians, and that ecclesias¬ 
tics and layman teachers have been try¬ 
ing to understand and declare ever 
since. 

That body and brain are used by an 
unseen power that calls itself I, or I AM 
THAT I AM, or I AM WHAT I AM 
DECLARING, AND THEN SOME! 
is to me a proved assumption even with¬ 
out the dicta of scientists. I feel and 
KNOW, by observation and introspec¬ 
tion, that I use my body and my brain, 
that I call up new thoughts; that 1 com¬ 
mand them. 

And Victor Hugo knew this when he 
wrote in his later years those immor¬ 
tal words which find echo in many 
hearts:— 

“/ feel in myself the future life . I 
am like a forest once cut down; the new 
shoots are stronger and livelier than 
ever. I am rising , 7 know , toward the 

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sky. The sunshine is on my head. The 
earth gives me its generous sap, but 
heaven lights me with the reflection of 
unknown worlds. 

“You say the soul is nothing but the 
resultant of the bodily powers. Why, 
then, is my soul more luminous when 
my bodily powers begin to fail ? Win¬ 
ter is on my head, but eternal spring is 
in my heart. 1 breathe at this hour the 
fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and 
the roses as at twenty years. The 
nearer 1 approach the end the plainer I 
hear around me the immortal sympho¬ 
nies of the worlds which invite me. It 
is marvelous, yet simple. It is a fairy 
tale, and it is history. 

“For half a century 1 have been writ¬ 
ing my thoughts in prose and in verse; 
history, philosophy, drama, romance, 
tradition, satire, ode, and song; I have 
tried all. But I feel I have not said the 
thousandth part of what is in me. 
When I go down to the grave I can say 
like many others, ‘I have finished my 
day’s work.’ But I cannot say, 7 have 
finished my life.’ My day’s work will 
begin again the next morning. The 
tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thor- 

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oughfare. It closes on the twilight, it 
opens on the dawn.” 

The fact that brain, body, and 
thought do not always obey me proves 
not that I am less I, but that the brain 
and body and every thought I have 
called into being are endowed with voli¬ 
tion and wisdom of their own within 
and by me, that every thought is a men¬ 
tal creature with will of its own, created 
under and subject to those same seven 
principles elucidated in the first three 
chapters of this book. 

The unruliness of my thoughts and 
of my thought-made body only proves 
that they are alive in their own right; 
that the kingdom I am trying to rule is 
a kingdom of living beings,.not of dead 
putty. 

But there are other proofs'that I and 
my thoughts are one in exactly the same 
sense that the Father and I are one; 
that my body and my thoughts are lit¬ 
erally my alive body and my living 
thoughts—not me myself. 


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For formal scientific proof that your 
body and brain are your instruments, 
not you, con William Hanna Thomson’s 
“Brain and Personality.” 

For present purposes let us assume 
this to be true: That you act upon your 
body to produce -conscious thought, 
which, in turn, acts within your body 
to produce a finer body, and, in turn, 
still finer thought. 

If we assume this or accept it as 
proved, we cannot evade seeing the point 
that the thoughts in our minds are the 
only thing we need be solicitous about. 
If we let only desirable thought-people 
through our mental Ellis Island gate we 
need not tag around after them to see 
that they do no harm. . We can sit 
serene and trust them to settle where 
attraction takes them, and get busy 
about their work of improving condi¬ 
tions within us. 

In other words, we think the WORD 
into our cosmos and it straightway 
makes its mark there, after its kind. 

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The United States let in a generation 
or two ago, a Word, a man named Roose¬ 
velt. Uncle Sam didn’t tag him with 
policemen to keep him out of mischief. 
And from this man’s natural activities 
came good work, marriage, children, 
grandchildren, Theodore Roosevelt and 
the imprint for good which he has made. 
All from one little man let in. 

This is an exact parallel and not at 
all an exaggeration of the power the 
right sort of thought exerts to make its 
mark on your body. Yes, an exact par¬ 
allel ; for your thought-words form the 
cells or families of your body, and these 
increase and multiply and work and 
think, and wield an influence on the 
whole body, just as people do in the 
whole world. 

The same laws work everywhere in 
every atom and cell. 

So right living resolves itself into 
right thinking. It resolves itself into 
a matter of Good Government of 


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Thought-People; a government that lets 
in the best thoughts to settle your body 
and improve it; a government that looks 
to the needs of all its settlers, that con¬ 
serves and develops its natural re¬ 
sources; that educates every one of its 
people and gives every one its opportu¬ 
nities and responsibilities in helping 
along the whole; a government of the 
head that despises no part as common, 
that HONORS the hand, the foot, the 
excretory organs, the sex organs, too, 
and develops each for the good of all. 

Eugenics as well as hygienics must 
rule within the personal body if it is 
ever to rule within the world. 

Now the question is, how shall we get 
our kingdom in order? 

We cannot kill off all the evil and 
false thoughts we have let in in the past 
any more than we can kill off all the 
negroes and Indians and criminals and 
incompetents and hobos in our United 
States and give the country over to the 
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Only one course is open to the indi¬ 
vidual and the nation alike: To admit 
hereafter only desirable thoughts and 
people; to educate to useful service 
every one already within the gates; to 
restrain and educate the lawless; and 
to patiently trust the rest to that law 
of nature which says the “wicked shall 
not live out half their days” while the 
“righteous shall inherit the earth.” 

And that last clause is the most impor¬ 
tant one of the three, and the first. For 
without trust in the law of good—the 
evolutionary principle of nature, if you 
prefer that term,— without trust in God 
as the power that is working all things 
for good and better, and best, as the 
religionist says; without this faith in 
the outcome of effort no government 
could make the effort to keep out the 
undesirable invader, or to educate to 
useful service those already within its 
borders. Nor could the individual with¬ 
out trust in this same law in himself 
ever muster up the energy to perform 


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the same service for his thought-built 
body. 

Lack of faith in the One Living Pres¬ 
ence and the Law of Evolution is the 
cause of pessimism. “Pessimism is a 
disease,” Horace Fletcher says 

It is. Pessimism is creeping paraly¬ 
sis, and its cure is faith and work. 

At Ellis Island they have a set of defi¬ 
nite rules by which they judge an immi¬ 
grant before they let him through the 
gates. 

So you and I need a principle by 
which to judge the thoughts we allow in 
our minds. The best rule I know of is 
given in one of Paul’s epistles—“the 
fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, 
longsuffering (or patience), gentleness, 
goodness, faith, meekness (meekness of 
a child), temperance (in all things); 
against such there is no law.” 

So thoughts that bring love, joy, 
peace, patience, gentleness, meekness, 
goodness, faith, and temperance are to 


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be invited into our minds and given 
every encouragement to dwell within us 
and increase and multiply and take care 
of themselves, and glorify and beautify 
and healthify us. 

When you are in doubt about a 
thought measure it by all nine of these 
words and turn it back if it isn’t up to 
standard. 

Is it a loving thought? Is it a thought 
that radiates joy? or peace? Some¬ 
times you can’t see the joy in a new 
thought that comes up, but you can 
always tell whether its entrance would 
bring peace. Is it a thought that brings 
patience? gentleness? meekness? good¬ 
ness? Is it a thought that brings a tem¬ 
perate feeling? Above all, is it a thought 
shod with faith—faith in God within 
you, and God within the other man? 

If the thought can honestly answer 
yes to this quiz, open wide the gate and 
let him in. 

If he can’t, turn him back to the bot¬ 
tomless pit whence he came. 


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But don’t worry if he refuses to get 
out of your sight, or if he keeps coming 
back again. Keep turning him down 
until he gets discouraged and quits 
coming! 

And the best way to keep him from 
coming up before your gate is to turn 
your back on him and get busy with 
thoughts that can pass the quiz with 
plenty of room to spare. 

The gate within you is the gate of 
CHOICE, or Will. You can choose your 
gate open to a thought, or you can choose 
it shut! The thought, being alive on its 
own account, may hang around if you 
choose to shut the gate in its face, but 
it cannot get into you or hurt you until 
you choose to let it. 

Your choice is the one mighty little 
bit of your being over which you have 
absolute control. “Choose ye this day 
whom ye will serve.” Choose you this 
moment what thought you will in¬ 
vite in. 

Practice in choosing the right thought 


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makes perfect; and by and by your body 
and brain will be so settled and gov¬ 
erned by the right thoughts that unright 
ones will cease to besiege you for admis¬ 
sion. For the law of attraction works 
here, you know,—to him who hath been 
settled up by evil thoughts shall more 
evil thoughts come. Hobos avoid cer¬ 
tain well governed towns in Massachu¬ 
setts as they would a pestilence; so will 
hobo thoughts avoid the mind that is 
positive to them. 

Here come in the positive and nega¬ 
tive attitudes of mind that puzzle so 
many people. Choice is the gate which, 
closed, makes you positive, and opened, 
negative. 

You cannot stand ever at that gate, 
waking and sleeping, to guard the en¬ 
trance, any more than Congress can 
stand ever at Ellis Island judging immi¬ 
grants. 

But you can do within yourself ex¬ 
actly what Congress does —issue a man¬ 


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date that will cause certain sets of brain 
cells within you to perform that office. 

You never see those cells any more 
than Congress sees the inspectors at the 
island, but they are appointed to their 
work just the same, and they are just as 
faithful at the work as the steady posi¬ 
tiveness of your mandate requires. 

You are the lawgiver of your being, 
and at your command are all the com¬ 
petent officers needed for the work, and 
all the police and detective and navy 
organizations needed to see that they 
do it. 

Not a function or functionary in pub¬ 
lic government but has its exact analogy 
within you. 

I wish you would read in this connec¬ 
tion several chapters on cell life and 
organization in C. A. Stephens’“Natural 
Salvation.” The ultimate conclusions 
in that book are shortsighted, it seems 
to me, but the scientific description of 
the human organization is wonderfully 
vivid and exact. 


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You can send into your being a posi¬ 
tive mandate to invite in the thoughts 
that can stand that quiz and to turn 
back the thoughts that can’t; you can 
reiterate that mandate positively, 
calmly, firmly, at certain set periods 
every day, never minding it much be¬ 
tween times; and if you are faithful at 
the practice you are just as dead sure 
to see results in due time as the world 
is to see the flowers bloom in the spring, 
—and by the self-same law of growth. 

Patient, persistent reiteration sent 
into your body will just as surely take 
root and grow and produce after its kind 
as orange seeds will grow if planted in 
the right place. 

And I don’t care whether you have 
faith in the practice or not. Faith is 
necessary to the process, but if you have 
faith enough to keep you at the practice, 
that faith will grow like any other 
planted seed, and in time you will have 
all the faith you know what to do with. 


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To do the thing plants your grain of 
faith, and the natural law of growth 
takes care of the rest. 

Whatsoever things you desire you can 
manifest in your body by sending 
forth your mandates in LOVE, JOY, 
PEACE, PATIENCE, FAITH, TEM¬ 
PERANCE, and trusting the life in you 
to do the rest. 

There is nothing good that you can 
imagine for our people of the United 
States that canot he worked out by those 
people, if you give them time and good 
mandates to work by. The gates of hell 
and Ellis Island cannot and will not 
prevent. 

If you have the seership of the cosmic 
consciousness you know all good is being 
worked out among us, and your joy and 
enthusiasm and love grow with the 
thought. 

Even so within you is all good being 
worked out. You are building better 
than you know. 

Your ideals and desires are YOU, 


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and unceasingly they are working them¬ 
selves out within and through you as 
within the world. 

Wake up now, and accept your good 
for granted, and work consciously for 
it and with it. Take your dominion in 
the only place you can, in your thoughts, 
and the spirit of all life will do the rest. 


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CHAPTER XIV. 

Interaction op Mind and Body. 

E all want, first, to be de¬ 
livered from sin and 
sickness; then from pov¬ 
erty. I think I have 
shown you by antithesis 
that sin is merely a fall¬ 
ing short of the ideal which is our 
higher, positive self, and which consti¬ 
tutes our conception of what we and our 
doings “ought” to be. As our ideal 
grows larger our conception of what 
constitutes sin changes. 

Always that “ought” urges us to live 
up to our ideal, and this we cannot 
always do because our ideal is ever 
ahead of our ability to make real. Until 
we understand this and forgive our¬ 
selves for our shortcomings we are des¬ 
tined to writhe under that sense of sin. 
Until we do understand ourselves and 



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our relation to the One Life we think it 
is God’s forgiveness we are after—God 
outside ourselves. 

To supply this need of forgiveness 
came Jesus and other saviors, who 
knew themselves as one with the Father, 
and who in his name rolled that para¬ 
lyzing burden of sin from the hearts of 
the self-ignorant ones. 

This was an expedient necessary and 
aidful until man’s intelligence should 
develop to the point of finding God in 
his own heart, the God of love and wis¬ 
dom—not of anger and revenge —ready 
to forgive his every shortcoming, and 
ever urging him on to fresh effort. 

The “ought” in every human heart is 
certain to create a sense of sin or short¬ 
coming, and this sin must find some 
sort of forgiveness, or hope dies and 
there is no joy in effort. Forgiveness 
of sin is necessary. “God was in Christ 
Jesus reconciling the world unto him¬ 
self”—not reconciling himself unto the 
world, as the sin-burdened one naturally 


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supposed. Until the sin-burdened one 
was reconciled he was too discouraged 
to try again to live up to that ideal of 
his of what he “ought” to be and do. 

Forgive yourself through knowing 
yourself. Choose to admit and to god¬ 
speed thoughts of self-forgiveness. 

But remember that to forgive your¬ 
self you must first forgive all others. 

Non-forgiveness expresses in tension 
and fear, no matter whether it is non¬ 
forgiveness of self or of somebody else! 
“To know all is to forgive all.” 

Know yourself and all others as in¬ 
complete and growing expressions of 
GOD, and you can forgive all short¬ 
comings. 

To do this, take those Twelve Planks 
of the New Thought Platform into the 
silence with you and live with them. 
Do it every day. Take one plank at a 
time and live with it, meditate over it, 
pray with it, think by it, for a week. 
Take special periods two or three times 
a day for “holding the thought” stated, 


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holding the thought quietly, waiting and 
listening for the One Spirit’s illumina¬ 
tion of the text. 

At the end of a week take up the next 
plank in the same way. Follow this up 
with the whole twelve statements. By 
the end of the twelve weeks’ faithful 
work you will find it no effort to forgive 
yourself and all the world. 

And most, if not all, your diseases 
will disappear with your grudges, your 
unforgivingnesses. For hard feelings 
are at the bottom of all dis-eases, if they 
they are not indeed the only thing at the 
bottom of them. 

For hard feelings are literally hard¬ 
ening of the feelings and of the whole 
nervous system; and this is the begin¬ 
ning of all disease. 

Hard feelings result in hardening of 
the nerves, then of the arteries. These 
eventuate in shutting off blood supply 
in some portion or portions of the body, 
and inflammations, tumors, cancers, 


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and what not appear. So disease grows 
from the mere disease of hard feelings 
to the violent pains of approaching dis¬ 
integration. 

And mind you, thoughts, HARDEN¬ 
ING thoughts, are at the bottom of it all. 

THE CURE is softening thought— 
thoughts that wake love, joy, peace, 
faith in God, men and self; thoughts of 
patience, gentleness, temperance. 

“Love your enemies, do good,” is the 
new thought specific for sin, sickness, 
poverty, and death itself. 

As to specific ways of treating dis¬ 
ease, there are many; and the best for¬ 
mula for you to use is your formula, not 
mine. And indeed I have no formula; 
I use the thought that comes up to my 
mind in connection with any particular 
case, always taking care to state it in 
the positive mood, present tense. 

This is what Paul Militz used to call 
the “perfect word,”—the statement 
that the thing is complete now. 


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“I am going to be well,” will keep you 
going, but never arriving. 

“I AM WHOLE NOW,” backed by 
temperate action, and persistently used, 
will do the work. 

The same perfect word may be ap¬ 
plied to any specific part of the body 
that happens to be specially hardened 
and diseaseful, as well as to your being 
as a whole. 

All scientists agree to-day that “the 
blood is the life of the flesh,” as some¬ 
body said in the Old Testament. 

All up-to-date doctors diagnose by 
blood tests. They measure the quality 
of the blood through a magnifying 
glass; and the pressure of the blood, 
which latter indicates accurately the 
degree of hardening of arteries, through 
either nerve tension or calcareous de¬ 
posit. 

And all advanced doctors aim first 
and last and all the time to make rich 
blood and to keep blood pressure normal. 

That they depend wholly upon drugs 


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to do this is their misfortune and the 
patients’. 

But even this is passing the calamity 
stage through the new movement of Dr. 
Cabot and others beginning in Boston 
to develop a sort of Emmanuel move¬ 
ment of their own, teaching their pa¬ 
tients how to substitute right thinking 
and right living for drugs. 

The mental scientist says that right 
thinking and feeling is the one essential 
for health. 

The physical scientist says all diseases 
are blood diseases and that pure blood 
well circulated is the one essential. 

But I say unto you that both these 
things are equally essential to a sound 
mind and body. And I say also that 
neither one can exist without the other; 
that right thinking and 'pure blood act 
and react upon each other; that what¬ 
ever affects one has its equal effect upon 
the other. Soul, brain, and body are 
one, built of one substance. 

At Yale the professors and students 


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do much experimenting with a contriv¬ 
ance called a muscle bed. It consists of 
a six-foot table poised as delicately as a 
druggist’s scales. A man lies full length 
on this table exactly in the center, so 
that the ends are evenly balanced. The 
professor gives him a difficult problem 
to solve mentally. He figures away in 
his mind. After a moment the head of 
the table tilts slowly downward. The 
effort of thinking out that problem 
draws the blood to his head and the deli¬ 
cate scales show it. 

Then the table is balanced exactly 
again for another trial. “Now think of 
your feet,” says the professor. The 
man thinks steadily of his feet. After 
a moment, slowly downward tilts the 
foot of the table. The blood increases in 
his feet when he thinks steadily of them. 

This indicates to you why mental 
treatments for a special organ or nerve 
center are effective. The blood and the 
Word work together right at the point 
where special effort is needed. 


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You can think the blood into any part 
of your body, and the blood will carry 
food to that part, and carry the refuse 
and poison out of that part. 

Remember that blood itself is thought- 
made and thought-directed; it is sub¬ 
conscious thought in its nature; and that 
your conscious thought is always the 
mandate giver for your subconscious 
thought-people. To liken the leucocytes 
or phagocytes of the blood to policemen 
is truth, not metaphor. 

Speak the perfect Word for your body 
as a whole, and for each part that seems 
to need special care, and trust the little 
blood-people to do your bidding. 

And right here we come to the phys¬ 
ical side of life, which it is foolishness 
to try to ignore. Blood may be purified 
or contaminated by thought; it may be 
made sluggish or swift-running by 
thought; but it may also be contami¬ 
nated or purified, its circulation ac¬ 
celerated or retarded by physical 
means. 


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And Life says there are distinct limits 
beyond which mind cannot go without 
body, nor body without mind. To 
prove this quickly you have only to shut 
yourself up in the bath room, plug up 
the keyhole, batten down the window, 
and turn on the gas. Then think your 
hardest and best, and see what good it 
will do you. A half hour of this will 
convince your friends if not you. 

Do you see that exercise of the body 
is absolutely essential, or thinking must 
come to a stop sooner or later? Breath¬ 
ing is exercise of the body. Breathing 
is the one thing you MUST do if you are 
to live and think at all. 

And evidently you must have the 
right kind of air to breathe, or you can’t 
breathe long anyway. Shut up in the 
bath room with the gas turned on, all 
your thinking and your will can’t keep 
you breathing but a few minutes. 

And your conscious thinking will stop 
long before your breathing does. Ever 
see a person die of asphyxiation?—long 


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after he ceases to be conscious his lungs 
labor and labor to get air into him. 

Evidently there is something in the 
air we breathe without the constant USE 
of which we cannot think or live. The 
physical scientist says it is oxygen; I 
say it is oxygen and a number of finer 
ethers of which we as yet know little or 
nothing. 

But the fact is the same in either 
event: that we must continuously inflate 
and deflate our bodies with air, or we 
can’t think. So the bodily exercise of 
breathing is indispensable to the mental 
exercise of thinking, as well as vice 
versa. 

C. A. Stephens says that conscious¬ 
ness and conscious thought are caused 
by a sort of bodily cosmic consciousness 
made by all the little cell-people of our 
nervous system “holding hands,” as it 
were, in a continuous chain of mental 
activity of each cell for the good of the 
whole body. 


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Through our waking hours all our 
cell-people are attending to the business 
of the whole. Imagine the nerve cells 
“holding hands” and flashing messages 
from one to another through those held 
hands, each cell a specialist receiving 
and sending messages for the good of 
the whole, and you can perhaps grasp 
Mr. Stephens’s idea of what conscious¬ 
ness consists of. 

Now imagine all the little cell-people 
getting tired and quitting work at 
night, all letting go hands and each cell 
relaxing, resting, playing on its own 
account, cleaning out its little house, 
eating supper and going to bed—even 
as you and I after a day’s work—im¬ 
agine this and you will have a good idea 
of what takes place while we tire and 
go to sleep. In the waking time our 
body cells carry on the necessary work 
of the whole; while we sleep our cells 
carry on their own personal work, play, 
rest, recreate, sleep as they please and 
must. 


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Possibly our dreams are glimpses of 
little theatrical performances got up by 
some of our cell-people for their own 
amusement! 

With this view of personal conscious¬ 
ness Mr. Stephens naturally admonishes 
you against giving your cell-people too 
long a day. He advises eight hours’ 
sleep or more every night, good, sound 
sleep, induced by a hearty godspeed to 
your little cell-people to run home now 
and enjoy themselves. 

Other medical scientists claim to find 
what they call “fatigue poisons” gen¬ 
erated by all kinds of effort, which poi¬ 
sons induce lethargy and sleep in the 
cells of the part exercised. According 
to them these fatigue poisons affect fully 
only the organs generating them, so the 
cells of one organ may sleep while those 
of another are fresh and active, and 
vice versa. This explains why our con¬ 
scious minds sleep while our stomachs 
or other organs are working; and why 


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one set of muscles rests while another 
is being exercised; why a brisk walk 
outdoors or a ten-minutes’ breathing 
exercise corrects brain-fag. 

According to this new thought of the 
medical scientist, the fatigue poisons 
are a beneficent provision of nature to 
make folks rest. During rest the poi¬ 
sons are all eliminated. 

Between you and me, I think those 
fatigue poisons are the natural excreta 
and effluvia of the little cell-people, and 
that they just let go hands and clean 
house after business hours, even as you 
and I. 

The blood flow carries food to every 
part, organ, and cell of the body, and it 
carries off the sewage. This blood flow 
must be full, pure, and well circulated 
or there is trouble. The mind must do 
its share to regulate the blood, but it 
cannot do it all, as you proved in that 
closed bath room with the gas turned on. 

Breathing is body exercise that keeps 
the blood flowing. The lungs have 


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more to do with regulating circulation 
than the heart has, as you can easily 
prove by a few exercises. Let the per¬ 
son with a “weak heart” practice breath¬ 
ing evenly, taking pains to make each 
exhalation as slow and even as the inha¬ 
lation, and he will soon find his heart 
and circulation all right and his mind- 
control much improved. 

William Hanna Thomson says insan¬ 
ity is a blood disease; and everybody 
knows when his blood gets thin and 
sluggish that his thoughts run like mo¬ 
lasses in January, and his feelings are 
like wild chickens, fluttering, flying, 
foolish. When your blood is thin, no 
matter what the cause, you are negative 
to every germ that grows, and you can’t 
even think straight. 

Wrong thinking, lack of the right 
amount of body exercise to keep the 
blood booming on its course, lack of well 
masticated, nourishing food, or poisons, 
or germs,—these constitute the four 
sources of blood contamination. Any 


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one or more or all of these causes may 
be active in any one case. 

And if it is a chronic case you may 
safely bet that all the causes are active; 
for one cause cannot long live unto itself 
in the human organism. The whole 
thing gets out of order from soul to sole, 
and each and every part reacts on every 
other. 

So good common sense tells you—does 
it not?—to eliminate so far as possible 
all four causes of poor blood supply. 
Regulate diet and exercise your jaws; 
exercise moderately every organ of the 
body, particularly your lungs; think as 
highly and peacefully as you can. 

Send your mandate of health into all 
your mind and body; but give your little 
cell-people time to rest and regenerate 
themselves for the task you set them. 

The very first step to health is to take 
as few steps as possible, but let those be 
of the sort that will give your little cell- 
people right conditions to work in. 

The first need of the sick one is rest — 


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absolute rest. Quit stuffing the stom¬ 
ach with anything until the cell-energies 
have time to throw out the “fatigue poi¬ 
sons,” the decaying matter that is mak¬ 
ing them groan at their work. 

Your energies need oxygen to burn 
up the germ-cultures within you, the 
dirt. Breathe, breathe good, fresh, 
oxygen-laden air. Breathing is the one 
exercise the sick man cannot overdo— 
unless he tries breathing foul air. 

Fresh air, outdoor air well breathed 
the sick man MUST have if he is ever 
to get rid of the poisons and germs that 
are killing him. 

Water he must have, all he can take 
of it, to make his blood stream run free 
and to carry off the poisons. 

Food he should not have at all for 
several days, because it takes energy to 
digest and assimilate food, and the sick 
man’s energy must go first for the clean¬ 
ing out of the poisonous matter. 

A sick man’s body is in the same con¬ 
dition that Messina was after the earth- 


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quake—full of decaying cell-bodies that 
must be got rid of quick, a task that re¬ 
quires every energy and cries for more. 

Every man must be fed, yes, and 
every cell must be fed. But just as re¬ 
lief was rushed to Messina, so is relief 
rushed to diseased parts of the body 
from stores already on hand. 

That is the real meaning of inflam¬ 
mation in the body—a rush of blood 
and cell-people to clean up the trouble. 
Doctors now apply ice to regulate in¬ 
flammation so the cell-people can work 
to better advantage—just as the gov¬ 
ernment applied martial law to keep 
back the mobs of people who couldn’t 
or wouldn’t help clean up at Messina, 
and at San Francisco. 

Mobs retard the work of cleaning up, 
and every atom of food above the line of 
absolute need does the same thing. Im¬ 
agine the workers at Messina stop¬ 
ping to cook and eat three or four quails 
on toast apiece every day, to keep them 
from spoiling , and then taking the usual 


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rest after a big meal, and you will see 
the point. 

The food taken in by the sick man 
simply adds to the work and to the de¬ 
caying heaps that must be disposed of, 
or pestilence gets in its work. 

Oxygen to make the fires burn up; 
water to keep the blood stream clear 
and flowing; lung exercise to keep the 
oxygen coming and the blood flowing ; 
these are the indispensables to the sick 
man. 

MIND DOES THE REST! 

Do you see the point? 

If you are still inclined to quarrel 
with the use of physical means, answer 
me, please, this question: If mind is 
all, why not let mind do it all? Why 
insist upon helping mind by stuffing in 
food? 

Why not cut off the densest of mate¬ 
rial aids, food, and let mind, air, and 
water do the work? 

Why not trust mind to call for food 
when she needs it ? She certainly never 


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calls for food in case of a really sick 
person. This ought to be a sufficient 
hint that she doesn’t want it. 

Now let us get back to our center 
again. 

The mind, or soul, or God runs the 
body by making it breathe in pure air 
and breathe out the effluvia and excreta 
of its countless billions of cell-people. 

The excretory organs get rid of unas¬ 
similated matter-food that was taken 
in without being properly prepared, or 
that was unneeded. 

Here is prophecy: the time will come 
when man’s digestive canal will be 
always as clean as the inside of a baby’s 
mouth, and there will be no excreta; 
for we shall know better than to take 
into our stomachs more than we can 
excrete through lungs and pores. In 
due time our stomach and our bowels 
will follow our vermiform appendix and 
our coccyx into the bottomless pit of all 
useless things. 


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We eat air through lungs and pores; 
and in air is every constituent of foods. 

Why not do all our eating and excret¬ 
ing through lungs and pores,—as plants 
do? Why not eat air, drink water, and 
excrete perfume like the lily? It is 
desirable. 

And desire is true prophecy. 


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CHAPTER XV. 

How to Live a Perfect Day. 

F you were going to run 
a Marathon race would 
you prepare for it by 
sleeping until the last 
minute, then tumbling 
out of bed in a hurry, 
throwing on any old thing that came 
handy, and starting off at your highest 
possible speed? If you did you would 
certainly fall by the wayside before you 
had reached the halfway mark. 

And yet to the average man and 
woman every day is a little Marathon 
race with Time, and many of us begin 
it in just that haphazard sort of hustle. 
If we don’t hustle, we drag and com¬ 
plain, or we snap at every touch of 
those who are running the same little 
race beside us. When Hayes won the 
Marathon he trained for months before- 



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hand. Every handicap of his living 
was laid aside; he ate the plainest food, 
kept regular hours, trained carefully 
every day, kept his mind ever polarized 
to the one thought of success in that 
race. 

And because he made this careful 
preparation and ran the race in the 
most judicious fashion, beginning very 
easy and gaining speed as he progressed, 
he came out ahead of everybody else, 
still in good trim. 

Dorando and others in the same race 
started out with the idea of distancing 
everybody in the first mile. For this 
one reason that they ran too hard at the 
beginning, they collapsed before they 
could reach the goal. They had spent 
their energy too lavishly at the start, 
while Hayes husbanded his. 

The successful life is made up of a 
succession of successful days, every day 
being a little Marathon by itself. If 
we live a successful to-day, we make a 
wise preparation to live a successful 


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to-morrow; and so on, day after day, 
year after year, through our whole 
lives. 

Only to-day is ours. To-day we may 
make the right preparation, make the 
right and easy start, run the successful 
race with time, and close the day a vic¬ 
tor. This day it is possible to do that. 
How shall we prepare for it? How hus¬ 
band our energies and direct our efforts? 

Let us begin the night before, by 
going to bed right, and at a reasonable 
hour. To go to bed right one should 
have fifteen minutes of quiet time for 
good reading, meditation, and affirma¬ 
tion before he closes his eyes. 

Seat yourself comfortably and read a 
chapter in the best book you know of. 
Read slowly and meditate frequently. 
Get quiet, let go, and permit the Spirit 
to show you the real meaning of what 
you read. Aspire to know the truth, 
and remember that you are one with 
the Spirit of Truth, and that you make 
the connection by letting Truth into 


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your thought, through aspiration and 
meditation. 

Be still and know that I AM GOD. 

After reading, think over your day, 
and remember all the good things 
which have happened. If any unpleas¬ 
ant things come up accept their lesson, 
but deny their reality, deny their power, 
bid them begone and forgotten. Search 
for the good things in that day, and with 
every one that comes into your mind 
give thanks to the One Spirit which 
“worked in you to will and to do of his 
good pleasure.” Invoke the Spirit to 
continue working within you, open your 
mind to It, love It. As you go to sleep 
remember that the One Spirit of love 
and wisdom and power enfolds you and 
moves through you while you sleep, 
cleansing, rejuvenating, reorganizing, 
getting you ready for the morrow. Tell 
yourself that you will sleep soundly, 
trustingly, well, and that you will wake 
in the morning, bright, interested, and 
full of power. 


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And in the morning. When you 
wake up, wake up. Rub your eyes 
promptly, stretch yourself with vigor 
and enjoyment for just half a minute, 
and then step resolutely to the floor. 
Do a few physical culture stunts to set 
your blood circulating. Take a few full 
breathing exercises before the open win¬ 
dow. Bathe and dress properly and ex¬ 
peditiously. Concentrate on these 
things, and do them in the best possible 
manner, in the shortest possible time 
without hurrying. 

If you have done these things with 
interest and good will, you have already 
performed half the work of getting your 
mind focused and directed for a suc¬ 
cessful day’s work. Now complete your 
preparation by remembering again the 
one source from which you are to gain 
wisdom and power to make this the 
most happy and successful day of your 
life up to the present time. Thank this 
power for working in and through you, 
direct your mind to heed its promptings. 


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Read again for a few minutes from some 
high-potency book—perhaps the Bible, 
or Emerson. 

Get your mind down to the now and 
remember that you are to begin easy, 
like the successful Marathon runner. 

If things go wrong, let them go. The 
only important thing to you is to keep 
going easy. 

Some one has said that man is not 
fully civilized before ten o’clock in the 
morning. This means that he is either 
stupid or snappy until he gets well 
started for the day. These directions 
are intended to help you to concentrate 
on getting started right in fifteen or 
twenty minutes—to show you how to do 
in the first half hour of your day what 
most people require three to five hours 
to do. This gives you a longer day and 
higher potency without taking away 
from your sleeping hours. 

After you have connected yourself in 
thought with the one source of wisdom 
and power and right direction, turn a 


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few minutes of your time to planning 
your day. Divide your work up into 
essentials, and non-essentials, and frills. 
In the first division put those things 
which absolutely must be done, and 
along with them be sure to include sev¬ 
eral short rest periods for yourself , in 
which you are to again read high- 
potency books and reconnect yourself in 
thought with the one source of power 
and wisdom. 

Be sure to put nothing in this division 
of essentials that can possibly be in¬ 
cluded as non-essentials or frills. 

In making this sort of division of 
your day, you get a better sense of pro¬ 
portion, and the things which are 
crowded out of the day will not burden 
you with a subconscious sense of defeat. 

Now you are properly prepared and 
directed for the day, body, mind, and 
soul. And you begin easy and gain im¬ 
petus as the day goes. 

You likewise gain satisfaction as the 
day goes, because you find that each 


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thing you do is done beautifully, i. e., it 
is done in the best possible manner, and 
the proof of it is in the sense of satisfac¬ 
tion which the thought of it wakes with¬ 
in you. Your day becomes a succession 
of things well done, and with every hour 
the sense of success, the sense of satis¬ 
faction, increases. 

By night you may be tired, but your 
subconsciousness will be singing! In 
right doing there is great reward, and 
right doing is always proved step by 
step by that little subconscious “well 
done” which is the blessing of God with¬ 
in you. 

When night time comes, remember to 
be grateful. Gratitude makes sure the 
connection between you and the one 
spirit of wisdom and power, love and 
joy. Be grateful for the power that en¬ 
abled you to live a successful day. Com¬ 
mend yourself in peace to the one Spirit, 
to work within you its good will, while 
you sleep. Tell yourself that you are 
giving up soul, mind, and body to the 


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workings of love and wisdom, and that 
you will wake up in the morning bright 
and interested and ready to advance. 

Live one day at a time, live a success¬ 
ful day, and you will find each day a 
preparation in full for a better one com¬ 
ing. This is to live the life satisfying, 
the life useful and advancing. 

I learned these things in the most ex¬ 
pensive school—Experience. Much trou¬ 
ble of soul, great effort and thought and 
practice gave me the secret. I glory in 
it more every day of my life, and I pass 
the secret on to him who will use it. 

None other can take it! 


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CHAPTER XVI. 

The Song of Yourself. 

THINK it is the Theoso- 
phists to whom we are 
indebted (?) for the idea 
that God is a very sub¬ 
limated being a long 
way off, whose Lords 
rule over the solar systems in space, 
giving their commands to Mahatmas or 
something, some of whom dilute it and 
fix it up and pass it on down stingily 
to a few very uncommon mortals scat¬ 
tered over this earth, mainly in the 
Orient. 

According to this philosophy the 
spirit is a long way removed from ordi¬ 
nary mortals, and the only wisdom that 
comes to mortals has to trickle down 
through beings of ever so many shades 
of superiority to said man. 

According to this theory (for it is 



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only a theory and nothing else) God 
is too intangible and superior to have 
anything whatever to do with directing 
man. Mahatmas apparently amuse 
themselves with doling out wisdom 
when and where they see fit. And they 
get their wisdom from Lords higher up 
whose chief business in life is to dole 
out Lord-Wisdom to the Mahatmas. 
And so on, and so on, ad infinitum. 

Why not have one anthropomorphic 
God and be done with it? Why have all 
these anthropomorphic Lords and Ma¬ 
hatmas between you and a sublimated 
God who cannot talk to you direct, and 
isn’t interested in you anyhow? 

It seems to me this sort of theory is 
nothing in the world but a trituration of 
polytheism. We have pretended to out¬ 
grow polytheism and accept one God, 
but apparently some of us have only 
exchanged our poly-Gods for poly-Ma¬ 
hatmas, et al. 

Right here I want to say that I don’t 
believe in a poly-God. I believe in One 


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God, who is just as close to me and to 
you as he is to any Mahatma or Lord 
in this universe, I don’t care where he 
is nor whom. 

I believe he speaks to us exactly as he 
did to Jesus of Nazareth. 

I believe that we live in him and by 
him. 

“In him we live and move and have 
our being, and by him we consist.” 

Take away God pure and simple, and 
there would be nothing left of you but 
a dead body —so dead that the worms 
couldn’t eat it. 

Bar God out of you and all the Ma¬ 
hatmas in Christendom couldn’t even 
wiggle your little finger nor make you 
understand that black is black and white 
is white. 

God is your life, your intelligence, 
your will, your love, your reality. 

Without God you would be a hole in 
space—if you can imagine such a thing. 

Without God you could not live, nor 
move, nor be. 


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God thought you into being and holds 
you there, and if all the Mahatmas and 
Lords in creation were swept into noth¬ 
ingness, God would keep on in-forming 
you until you grew into a new Mahatma 
and Lord bigger and better than any 
that have gone before. 

You can get away from the Mahat¬ 
mas and Lords, you can do just as well 
without them. 

But no matter whether you sit in 
heaven, walk on earth, or make your 
bed in hell, you cannot get away from 
God—there is a spiritual never-severed 
umbilicus between God and you through 
which .you get all your sustenance. 

Whatever Mahatmas and Lords there 
may be in the universe can be nothing 
more than midwives at your spiritual 
birth, which is a continuous perform¬ 
ance. 

The more Masters and Mahatmas and 
Lords you find in creation, the farther 
away from God you will be in conscious¬ 
ness. Wipe them off the map! Make 


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your own at-one-ment with God, just as 
the Mahatmas and Lords claim to do. 

This doesn’t mean that you cannot 
learn anything from any school teacher, 
or Mahatma, or Lord, or whatever 
other instructors there may be in the 
world. 

You can learn things from sticks and 
stones and running brooks. 

The teachers in the temple learned 
from a twelve-year-old child, and I 
HAVE been clear-seeing enough to learn 
things from a one-year-old child. 

There are times and occasions when 
you can learn very much more from a 
baby than you can from the oldest Ma¬ 
hatma that ever posed. 

Don’t despise the child and worship 
the Mahatma. Don’t stumble over the 
sticks and fall into the brooks while you 
are gazing adoringly at some self-styled 
“Master.” 

Don’t believe everything you hear 
from persons who pretend to high places 
and superior knowledge. 


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They may be pretending and they 
may not. 

But in either event they can pass on 
to you none of the wisdom which God 
has passed on to them. 

Believe only the wisdom which God 
gives you in the sanctuary of your own 
heart and mind. In other words, do 
your own thinking and discovering, 
touch God for yourself and believe in 
the wisdom that God gives you in pref¬ 
erence to accepting cock-and-bull stories 
from other people who pretend to be in 
closer touch with God than you are. 

Nobody is any closer to God than you 
are. 

Nobody is dearer to God than you are. 

Nobody has any more of a monopoly 
of God than you have. 

See that nobody has any greater faith 
in the God within him than you have. 

See that nobody depends more abso¬ 
lutely upon the God within him than 
you depend upon the God within you. 

Do the will of God within you, and 


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you shall know what to believe on all 
manner of subjects. 

Remember that God is All-Wisdom, 
All-Power, and All-Presence; that he is 
all these things in every pin point of 
space in this universe; that he is all 
these things within you, for you to use, 
to confide in, to act upon. 

Be still and know God. 

Trust no authority but the authority 
of your own heart and mind, which is 
the heart and mind of God. 

So shall you grow in consciousness of 
the One God which is your real self and 
power and wisdom as it is every other 
man’s real self and power and wisdom. 

Call no man Master, call no teacher 
Master, call no Mahatma Master, call 
no Lord Master. 

Only One is your Master, the One 
within you. 


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